Record ID: SF-BDA4B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle plate with integral pin of probable Roman date due to the presence of stamped decoration and a cast plate, of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIIB. The plate has the remains of the integral buckle frame projecting at one side of the plate, It has a repeating stamped decoration of two rows of circular dots and a line. There is a circular hole below the pin for a rivet (now missing). Length: 21.50mm (not including pin) Width: 23.77mm Thickness: 1.73mm Weight: 3.72g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nedging-with-Naughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8F7106
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy buckle dating to circa AD 350-410. Plano-convex in section, it is comprised of a now broken single D-shaped loop, of which only a small portion of the frame now survives, and an integrally cast triangular openwork plate. The terminal of the plate consists of a rounded knop with central, circular rivet hole. The separately cast rivet is missing and the void covered in corrosion. Flanking the the rounded knop are two broadly pointed protrusions from the outer edges. The central area of the plate contains a rectangular openwork decorative element with…
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Stowupland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1989D4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy buckle tongue from a late Roman buckle of Hawkes and Dunning type II A (Hawkes and Dunning, 1961, 50-52, fig 17e). Such buckle tongues rarely survive. It has a downward curving pin and this projects from a rectangular base with two downward curving projections at its sides which would have interlocked with the loop terminals of the now missing frame. At the base of the tongue there is the remains of a pierced integral loop, which would have fitted into another loop along the outer edge of the plate.  The front face has one ring and dot motif st…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bildeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-264FBE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably miscast fragment of a possible Late Roman copper alloy buckle frame (25 x 15mm, 2mm thick. Weighs 2.62g), broad flat-sectioned fragment of the possible shoulder of a frame with a horses head in profile projecting from the outside edge. Parts of the possible breaks are smooth. An engraved line defines the division of neck and mane on one face. See Hawkes and Dunning (1963). c. AD 250-409.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-9CD218
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman to Early Medieval buckle frame, dating to AD 350-450. It consists of a D-shaped frame in plan with an oval cross-section and bevelled edges. The front face of the outside edge of the frame is moulded in the shape of two confronted animals; the open jaws of the animals meets at the centre of the outer edge were there is an integral cast element which has an engraved lozenge-shaped line. On the top of the heads there are two pricked ears rendered by two rounded knops with engraved lines. The animals have a ring-and-dot eye and a line of engraved dots runn…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horringer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0DE35E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman buckle, dating to AD 350-450. The frame is moulded into two dolphin heads facing each other, with their mouths slightly open. Between their mouths there is an sub-oval element, probably moulded into a human mask. The animal head have two crests, which taper and flatten on the way down to the rest of the body; the lower end of the head is marked by two transverse raised lines. The tails of the dolphins curl inwards facing each other forming two opposite scrolls. The lower edge of the tails have two integrally cast lugs, which are set at right angle to th…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B6D44A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy late Roman to early medieval buckle frame. Just under half of the frame survives. It comprises a straight inner section and a section of one side that curves outwards and then inwards again, producing a slight S-shape. The inner section is rectangular in cross-section with a raised line across each side of its outer face and some faint parallel transverse line decoration in the centre. This section is complete - parallels show that there would have been a gap between it and the other half originally where the pin would have sat. A small knop projects from …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-44A146
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy late Roman buckle frame. Around half of the frame survives. Originally it would have been formed from pair of confronted dolphins, their open mouths holding a flattened rectangular pin rest in the centre of the outer side and their tails forming involuted terminals with a gap between them at the inner side. Now only one dolphin survives with a break across the centre of the pin rest. The outer edge of the dolphin's back is bevelled and decorated with incised parallel transverse grooves to create the impression of a fin. There is a notch on the outer edge of …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Moulton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-204A0B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy late Roman buckle. Around 40% of the buckle frame survives. This appears to have been C-shaped in form originally with an expanded outer edge tapering at each end to form an inwards curving (involuted) terminal. There is a break on the outside of the surviving end where an attachment lug may have extended originally. The reverse is flat and the outer face is convex. A rounded, flattened knop projects from the surviving outer corner, its outer face decorated with an incised ring-and-dot. A second smaller, forked knop extends from the centre of the outer edg…
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B92EB8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic frame buckle, dating to AD 300-410. The frame is moulded into two dolphin heads facing each other, with their mouths slightly open and a disc between them. Only the inward curled tail of one dolphin survives; the end of the tail bears a hinge loop set at right angle to the frame. The front face of the frame has two hooked projections leaning upwards. The back face of the frame has the moulded outline of the zoomorphic motif. Cf WAW-99C7AB. Classified as a Hawkes and Dunning (1961) Type IIa. Length: 21.89 mm Width: 28.44 mm Minim…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4B9397
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic buckle, missing the pin. The buckle is a Hawkes and Dunning Type 1B (Hawkes and Dunning, 1961. Page 49, no. 12, Figure 15 i). The zoomorphic decoration takes the form of dolphins with very poorly defined heads and pellet. The dolphins' crests have been developed into horses, seperated by a single incised line marking the back of the dolphins. The eyes of the horses have been marked by a cleary defined dot. The manes of the horses have been defined with a line of ring motifs which continue down the horse following the line of the body. Lines …
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-244719
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy possibly Roman military buckle, dating to AD 350-450. It consists of an arc of the possible buckle frame, which has a semi-circular cross-section and one elaborate end shaped like a dolphin head on the front face. It has an extended muzzle, which is broken and waisted on the long sides. On the top of the probable dolphin head there is a oblique groove which defines a thinner outer crest that is decorated with transverse grooves. At the centre of the head there is a circular hole, which is blocked by a corroded iron rivet fragment. The other end of the arc is…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-359801
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sheet metal fragment probably originating from a late Roman buckle plate of possible military attribution, c. 300-450 AD. The fragment is irregular in form, but probably represents the back edge of the plate. Stamped repousse decoration in the form of a central boss surrounded by a ring of pellets, in addition to a border of straight pelleted lines, is visble on its upper surface. Preserved in fairly good condition despite being broken with a turqoise-green patina, it survives to a length of 31.33mm in length, 12.49mm wide, and 0.58mm thick at its midpo…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hopton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2CE7E2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy late roman military buckle frame. The frame was originally composed of two confronted dolphin-like creatures with pointed tails curling inwards to form inner terminals with a gap between them (one creature is now missing). The surviving creature has a v-shaped, angular fin extending from its back and a circular hinge lug extending from the outer edge of its tail. Its outer face is decorated with an incised ring-and-dot forming and eye and a line of incised, parallel V-shaped along the centre. Between the open mouths of the two creatures is a short bar, D-sha…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redlingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B74508
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Roman copper alloy buckle. Only part of the frame and the integral openwork plate survive. The fragment of the frame is D-shaped in cross-section and has an incurved zoomorphic inner terminal attached to the inner edge of the plate. The zoomorphic details of the terminal are crude, but resemble a dolphin with open mouth and single, small fin extended outwards from the gap between the frame and the plate. The inner part of the plate is roughly rectangular, its outer face decorated with a central longitudinal groove with a line of small, parallel, diagonal grooves b…
Created on: Monday 9th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-662AC7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy object, possibly a late Roman openwork buckle plate. Only a small section of the object survives. This is rectangular in shape with a narrower, rectangular section projecting from the centre of one side (all that remains of the openwork plate?) and two breaks on the other side (the remains of loops securing a buckle frame?). There are worn breaks at all ends. There is a longitudinal groove running down the centre of the outer face of the larger rectangular section and a circular hole through the junction between the two sections, perhaps where the pin sat.…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AEEA73
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a zoomorphic buckle dating to the late Roman period, c. 350-450 AD. It originally would have been broadly rectangular in plan with a rounded outer edge to the plano-convex sectioned frame and straight strap-bar. Only a small fragment of the outer frame survives, the rest of the object having broken away in old damage. It takes the form of a pair of dolphin-like animals, facing each other and conjoined at the mouth either side of a central lozengiform moulding, just prior to which on the snout of each animal is a small circular …
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wordwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8A5F43
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper-alloy late Roman buckle of zoomorphic design, dating to c. AD 300 - 410. The buckle is of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIB, with an integrally cast sub-circular buckle plate. The loop is formed of two dolphin heads curving upward to meet, open-jawed, at the diamond-shaped pin rest in the centre of the outer loop edge. Together with the bar and loop, the buckle frame is roughly 'D' shaped. There is moulded decoration on both dolphin heads in the form of a curved crest along the backs of both beasts. The lips of the dolphins, which are arrow shaped and surround the ed…
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-DF3198
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a buckle plate of late Roman date, c. 300-400 AD, probably corresponding to Hawkes and Dunning's type IIA. The object would originally have been rectangular in plan, though now only the top corner survives with the rest of the buckle plate broken away in old damage. The plate is openwork, originally consisting a number (probably 4-5) of elongated sub-rectangular apertures, directly in front of which are spaced the same number of co-incident circular apertures. Due to damage, only two of each survive. The upper surface of the pl…
Created on: Wednesday 12th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B2C1C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle of Late Roman date, probably as Hawkes and Dunning Type IIB. It has an oval frame with moulded decoration comprising stylised confronting animal heads with slight crests, perhaps dolphins, separated by a small oval bead at the centre of the outer edge. At the frame end are the remains of an integrally cast rectangular plate that is now mostly incomplete due to old breaks. The inner edge of the bar is slightly convex with a central notch and the corroded remains of a cirular pin hole. Traces of openwork decoration are visible at the incomplete end…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.