Record ID: SF-4DD8C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy late Iron Age to Roman rosette brooch. Only a fragment of the rosette section and the lower end of the bow survive. The rosette fragment is sub-triangular in shape with damage and corrosion obscuring its original form and and decoration. The rosette brooches were primarily in use during the middle decades of the first century AD, with Mackreth's (2011, vo.I) re-dating of the King Harry Lane material suggesting that some variants may have been in use even earlier from the end of the 1st century BC. Length: 21.46mm, width: 22.07mm, thickness: 6.52…
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clare', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5BABE3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Iron Age unit of the Iceni, pattern/horse type, ECEN series, c.10BC-43 AD. Dish-shaped coin with worn reverse. Reverse type similar to Hobbs no. 4072(?); VA730.
Created on: Wednesday 12th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D18A63Z
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy and enamelled object, probably a button or similar item of Iron Age date. It is hemispherical in form, hollow, and with multiple symmetrical fields on the exterior surface that contain the remains of corroded red enamel. These comprise two large symmetrical fields around the rim that are rectangular in form and expand to elongated triangular ends. Around the centre of the object where the two larger fields meet are single spearhead shaped fields with single pairs of large circular fields evenly spaced between them (2 pairs in total). Around the top/apex of the obje…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DB6550
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Iron Age to Roman cosmetic mortar, dating to 100 BC - AD 200. It is a centre-looped mortar with a crescent bow and slightly convex walls; it has a U-shape sectioned groove and the two incomplete terminals might have been simply plain knobs. Above the broken loop there is a sub-rectangular element flanked on the short sides by two knops. The surface is very abraded and pitted. Cf. Jackson ( 2010, p. 117, no. 144) Length: 59.92 Width: 11.03 mm Thickness: 10.65 mm Weight: 24.55 g
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-506828
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver Iron Age unit of the Iceni, uncertain type, c.50 BC-43 AD. The coin is dish-shaped with extensive wear and encrustation on the obverse face making its identification impossible.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AF09E4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and partially encrusted copper-alloy Iron Age Trinovantian unit of Cunobelin, c.1-43 AD. As Hobbs nos. 1991-1997; VA 2107.
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Mills', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EE5824
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy terret ring of uncertain form and of Iron Age date. The integrally cast bar and part of the hoop to either side are preserved, the remainder of the hoop now missing due to old breaks. The bar is flat, rectangular in form, measuring 19.59mm in width, 9.14mm in length and 4.13mm in thickness. At each end of the bar where it joins the hoop is a raised sub-circular stop that extends into the hoop itself producing an almost trumpet-shaped profile. The tapering sides of the hoop are sub-oval shaped in section with a slight ridge at the centre of the o…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shadingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F23C71
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object of Iron Age date. It is sub-rectangular in plan with a steeply curved profile, probably partly a result of post-depositional damage. The two sides of the object form lobes projecting upwards to give a U or V-shaped section to the fragment. The front face has moulded decoration comprising a central vertical ridge with vertical grooves to either side, which flares at top and bottom towards the old breaks. Flanking the central rib are two opposing S-shaped motifs with slightly flaring, trumpet shaped, heads, one positioned on each lobe of the plate.…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rattlesden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D67660
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cosmetic mortar of Late Iron Age to Roman date. Only the looped terminal and a fragment of the bow survive, the remainder of the object missing due to old breaks. The fragment of bow is V-shaped in section with the remains of a deeply incised groove on the interior surface. At the complete end extends the integrally cast loop, which is circular in form, oval shaped in section and has a central aperture that is sub-circular in form. The object has a dark green/brown patina with patches of corrosion and encrustation. It measures 17.20mm in length, 6.71mm …
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D25EF8
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester bow brooch of late Iron Age to Roman date. It is missing the pin and parts of the catchplate due to old breaks. The short wings are flat and rectangular in form, separated by an integrally cast spring and chord hook that extends forwards onto the front of the bow. The spring has three coils to each side of the brooch that are held in place at the centre by the chord hook, the spring chord broken to one side due to post-depositional damage. The curved bow is flattened oval shaped in section, undecorated, and tapers to a pointed foot. On the ba…
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 11th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D24C51
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester bow brooch of late Iron Age to Roman date. It is missing part of the spring, pin and catchplate due to old breaks. The short wings are flat and rectangular in form, separated by an integrally cast spring and chord hook that extends forwards onto the front of the bow. The spring has three coils to the left hand side of the brooch, and one incomplete coil to the right, held in place at the centre by the chord hook. The curved bow is oval shaped in section, undecorated, and tapers to a pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an incomplete …
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 11th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A53412
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver coin of Iron Age date, uncertain type, probably c.1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Monday 24th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kedington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-77B292
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age to Roman (1st century BC to 1st Century AD) cast copper alloy strap junction; formed of two conjoined openwork circles arranged as a figure eight, with a projecting strap bar on the two longest edges. The strap bars are cylindrical with a perpendicular 'D' shaped terminal at each end which joins them to the openwork circles. It is 33.80mm long, 32.35mm wide, 6.09mm thick and weighs 21.45 grams. The strap junction has an even mid-green patina.
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-63F601
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Rosette brooch of Iron Age to Roman date. The lower half of the bow and half of the disc survive intact, the remainder of the brooch now missing due to old breaks. The bow is flat, rectangular in form and curved in profile. It is integrally cast with the remains of the disc and is decorated on its front face with a series of four vertical grooves truncated at the join of bow and disc with a transverse groove. The surviving half of the the disc is flat, semi-circular in form and appears to have originally extended upwards behind the bow to give it a circ…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 17th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-642A91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Rosette brooch of Iron Age to Roman date. It is missing the foot and pin due to old breaks. The brooch has a semi-cylindrical spring casing with flat, round end plates that are pierced at their centre and hold in place a copper-alloy axis bar with the remains of a spring of 7 coils. The pin is missing due to old breaks. The front face of the spring casing has rectangular decoration surrounding the top of the bow and formed from double parallel grooves with traces of added white metal (niello?) coating. The bow itself is sharply curved with D-shaped sect…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 17th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A3FDA4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy of uncertain form, possibly a mount, escutcheon or similar decorative object and perhaps of Iron Age date. The surviving fragment is roughly disc-shaped with a slightly dome-shaped section, one third of the disc now missing due to old breaks. The back face appears to contain the remains of an added grey metal, probably a solder of some kind, and this may hint at it having originally been mounted onto a larger object. The slightly dome-shaped front face is poorly preserved but does retain traces of decorative elements. This includes the remains of a brig…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F80655
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap fitting or strap union junction of probable later Iron Age to early Roman date. It is formed from three loops joined at a central boss decorated with a stylised human head in relief. The central boss is oval shaped in form with a hollow/concave back face. The depicted head has eyes formed from circular indentations and separated by a worn but slightly raised and straight nose. Above is a transverse brow/fringe with hair on the top of the head suggested through several incised grooves running back to front. A simple mouth formed rom a transverse gr…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8BF882
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester bow brooch. It is missing its spring, pin and most of the catchplate due to old breaks. The brooch has short, flat rectangular wings separated by an incomplete integrally cast rear facing spring and an integral hook that is bent forwards onto the head of the bow. The bow itself is cylindrical in form, tapering to a worn, pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an incomplete catchplate that appears to have circular or oval shaped perforations, now incomplete due to old breaks. This brooch measures 28.62mm in length, 8.13mm…
Created on: Monday 28th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-1B2FE5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small pottery sherd with dark brown fabric and grey surfaces containing flint and sandy inclusions. It measures 19.19mm in length, 18.96mm in width, 6.19mm in thickness, and weighs 2.55g. This sherd is of possible Iron Age date, although a later date range cannot be ruled out.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B364A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A worn Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Rosette brooch of complex riveted (Léontomorphe) type, c.25-65 AD. It is missing parts of the central disc, the spring case, catchplate and spring due to old breaks. The spring case is cylindrical in form with traces of an added white metal coating on one front face. It contains the remains of the spring, of which at least 7 coils survive separated by the incomplete pin. Extending forwards from the spring case is a short and integrally cast bow in the form of a crouching lion (sphinx) that is perhaps missing part of its head and has lost any…
Created on: Monday 12th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bures St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.