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Record ID: NMS-D7FFB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Manucius Aquillius, 109-108bc, MV AQVIL. Crawford 303/1
Created on: Friday 18th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th August 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E96D22
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mount, Williams Class A, Type 1, knobbed profile, very worn and corroded, broken across perforated lobe at apex, very faint traces of symmetrical curvilinear zoomorphic decoration remain (possibly as Williams (1997) fig.23, 58-60), pierced by two rivet-holes above flange at base. 29 x >38mm. Form closest to Williams fig.22, nos.42-3. 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A0DE5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Stud from military belt or harness, square (21 x 21mm) with transverse mouldings of a narrow median rib between two broad ribs, hollow reverse with integral rivet with oval disc-headed terminal (9 x 10mm) on reverse. Length 12mm. Cf. broadly similar examples in Oldenstein (1976), Tafel 51, nos.588-9. Late 2nd 3rd century.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A2DF6
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British fragment of a mirror, (with high tin content, >21 x >28mm), sub-rectangular with part of rim surviving and two engraved concentric lines on polished face with tiny pitting. Rim chamfered on reverse with fine oblique file marks and three surviving ring-and-dots along angle of chamfer. Diameter c.13mm.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6AE0E3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British tinned stud from military belt or harness, heavily cast (39.47g) with hollow hemispherical head (diameter 24mm) with integral rivet with disc-headed terminal (diameter 17mm) on reverse. Length 23mm. Cf. Oldenstein (1976), Tafel 46. Late 2nd to 3rd century.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6AFF97
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British bell, incomplete, broken suspension-loop at apex, small irregular perforation in shoulder, corroded remains of iron staple for missing clapper. Diameter 20mm. Height >15mm. Cf. Crummy (1983), fig.143.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7B9781
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete composite three-part Medieval strap-end, bent and broken, upper part missing, corroded remains of front and back-plates and full-width spacer secured by two copper alloy rivets, one through cruciform terminal. Fragment of engraved geometric decoration on face. 9 x >38mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andre/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7BB2D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt fragment of head-plate from an Early Saxon Great Square-Headed brooch, broken and bent, comprising undecorated fragment of head-plate second panel on one side of plain frame and inner panel with running loops containing pellets (as on example from Spong Hill, Hines fig.63c) and square bosses at angles and more elaborate boss at base of undecorated central bar between two square perforations (broken across one). Broken perforated pin lugs on reverse (ancient breaks). Hines' Group XVI, see example from Ely-High Barns, plate 93(a). 6th-century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7BC626
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Post Medieval spur, broken side of flattened D-section tapers towards end with engrailed sides and engraved transverse lines, broken across twin perforations in terminal. >45 x 12mm. 17th century
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7BD893
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy belt mount, triangular (10 x >21mm), worn, corroded and broken across one of three transverse ridges at apex, point missing, basal knop, stumps of two circular-sectioned spikes on reverse. Cf. Read (2001) no.330. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-391393
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval gilt unidentified object, sub-rectangular sheet with two surviving edges set at right-angles, one bordered by line of repoussé dots, two closely-spaced circular perforations of different size joined by break. >17 x 15mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-392B55
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval end cap from whittle tang knife, decorated with longitudinal zig-zag line on flat back, finely engraved panel on both convex faces with longitudinal standing figure on a hatched field, one male, one female (partly broken), both wearing large hats (rather than being nimbed), longitudinal arris on underside flares to a flat butt with engraved male bust in an elaborate hat. Contains organic material, probably bone and corrosion from iron tang. Cf. Opgravingen in Amsterdam (1977), 630a. 16th-century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3068B6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint scrapers. Three small secondary flakes with fine steep retouch on their distal edges. Cortex is thin and weathered. Probably Neolithic or Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-6EE3BA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of James I, Tower, uncertain initial mark, heavily clipped, extremely worn, weight 3.63g, 1604-25
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A4F757
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy sewing ring, maximum external diameter 18.5mm, tapering to 16mm. Height 13mm. Decorated on the outside with 19 vertical rows of punched dots in lines of five, six or seven, within a single engraved line around the top and bottom of the ring. Inside the surface is entirely covered with file marks. Egan (1998), fig.206 nos. 814-818. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A51DC0Z
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble, 18mm internal diameter, 20.5mm in height, worn and distorted beaten sheet copper alloy decorated with spiral of dots. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 6th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A528B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post Medieval copper alloy unidentified object, possible loop handle from furniture or vessel. Solid cast semi-circular with bevelled edges and slightly flaring ends and integral attachment stud at each end. External diameter 22.5mm, internal diameter 11mm. 1400-1600 AD.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A534C3
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post Medieval copper alloy cast ring, irregular section, internal diameter 13mm, external diameter 17mm.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A6E5F3
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval/Post Medieval purse frame, stump of short narrowed projection at one end, circular section, engraved with cross hatching (still partially inlaid with niello), remains of two attachment holes on thin projection from inner edge (broken across one). >52 x 8.5mm. Cf. Margeson (1993), fig.24, no.290 Type A and LMMC (1967), 165. Late 15th-16th century.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A71256
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval single loop kidney-shaped buckle with drilled frame for separate spindle or bar (missing), worn and distorted, 39mm x approximately 16mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no. 120, c.1450-1550.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C6EBD1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cuboid lead weight with central perforation. 16 x 24 x 24mm. Hole diameter 6mm. Weighing 1229.4 grains, possibly for 2½ ounces Troy (actually weighing 2.5615oz Troy).
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C700A1
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval bag-shaped rumbler bell with cut and folded base and top hammered into a suspension loop. Height 40mm. The pea has been lost. Cf. Ivens et al. fig. 152 no. 54.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C72C66
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval rotary key with twin internal projections in kidney-shaped bow, triple ribbed moulding at top of solid shank, and simple bit. Length 32mm. Width of bow 14.5mm. Cf. Read 2001 nos. 564-6. 16th – 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C73B36
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval square or quatrefoil openwork harness mount with single, central, rectangular sectioned attachment spike on reverse. Lobe at each corner, semicircular moulded cut-out midway along each side, pair of addorsed D-shaped apertures in each foil. Width 26–28mm. Bent spike length 10mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C77D64
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval furniture fitting: handle escutcheon with central sub-square aperture, and four attachment holes, two in lateral lobes and two in terminal lobes, of which one is shell-shaped. Hooked projection at each corner. On the front surface a symmetrical arrangement of recessed shapes have irregularly bases, as if for the keying of enamel, but there is no sign of such. 94 x 41mm. Thickness 2mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C78643
Object type: EWER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast spout of pedestal-based ewer in the form of a dog's head with elongated hexagonally sectioned (broken) neck. The eyes are engraved. Internal diameter at the damaged outlet and at the neck 12mm. Length >70mm. The ewer's body would have been lathe-turned, while the spout and handle were made separately by moulding before being applied with solder. Lewis 1987 Form 4. 15th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C7A342
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval sexfoil harness mount with stub of single, central, lozengiform sectioned attachment spike on reverse. Form and decoration as Read 2001 no. 244. Diameter 37.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C7B114
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval white-metal coated double-looped buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal, rounded lobe at both ends of bar, pointed edges. 39 x 23.5mm. As Whitehead 2003 no. 513. c.1620 – c.1680.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-04FED5
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval sword chape, cut-outs forming seven (one missing) scallop-like projections around mouth with single copper alloy rivet through vertical overlapping seam on one projection, flattened hollow oval-sectioned body pierced front and back by cut-out in the form of a rectangle surmounted by an onion (or ogival) dome. Collar forming knop at base with cast arrow-like triangular moulding above two blind holes on both faces. 19 x 89mm. No close parallel in de Reuck. 14th-16th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-051464
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt bar mount from harness, bar with three rectangular (and rectangular-sectioned) bosses decorated with oblique incised cross-hatching linked by flattened triangular-sectioned bar and with both ends of bar with opposed cusped mouldings before perforated terminal with elongated projecting knop (64 x 8mm). 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-051F10
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval double-looped buckle frame, surviving loop oval with openwork quatrefoil in centre of outside edge. 54 (reconstructed) x 29mm. Related to Whitehead 2003 no.532. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-052894
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval buckle, just over half of double-oval frame with cast concentric ribs and curvilinear knops flanking triple transverse ribs in centre of outside edge and anthropomorphic mask at both ends of narrowed central bar with traces of iron corrosion from missing pin. 37 (reconstructed) x 26mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.426. c.1550-1650.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-059AF7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval three-part strap-end, with full-width spacer, front plate with engraved rocker-arm border and single short vertical lines between pairs of oblique grooves in vertical zig-zag arrangement, a rivet through attachment-end, and elaborate cruciform terminal. 10 x 54mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05B717
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture mount, acorn-shaped or conical with knop on terminal and groove above waist at base with stump of inserted rectangular-sectioned iron bar. Diameter 15mm. Length 21mm (excluding bar).
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05C662
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval/post medieval vessel leg, corroded, sub-rectangular sectioned, face slightly concave on either side of vertical median rib, flaring to foot. Much sooting on original surface. 30 x >31mm.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05D445
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead tag seal with shield ensigned by a crown (very battered, possibly a Belgic lion rampant (cf. Egan (1994), no.324)). 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05DF86
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 irregular undatable molten lumps of possible casting waste, one weighing 8.84g, the other 1.58g.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-063537
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval mount from sword belt, corroded and bent, sub-rectangular with bi-concave ends and elaborately-notched sides, one with (broken) projecting suspension-loop, two incised lines forming cross on face pierced at both ends by rivet-hole, one contains the corroded remains of an iron rivet. 43 x 27mm. Cf. Read 2001 no.370
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-065584
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/post medieval ring, flat-sectioned with facetted outside edge. Diameter 27mm.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-177A38
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Romano British seal box, sub-rectangular hinged lid, unusually elaborate champlevé enamel decoration comprising a central ring-and-dot within radiating annulets reserved on a field of blue enamel, the ring and dot contains red enamel, the centre of each annulet is empty but could also have once contained red enamel, opposed end to hinge has a terminal knop with small locating pin on reverse. Square arrangement of four punched dots on reverse of lid. 19 x 28mm. 3mm thick. c.50-250 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-18FFC1
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and unusual Iron Age/Roman copper alloy possible toggle, reminiscent of a Button-and-loop fastener, but without the usual offset loop (cf. Wild (1970)), comprising a disc (19-20mm) with a large central concavity in the face, possibly for enamel, and a shank on the reverse that is bifurcated and broken, and probably originally formed a large attachment loop. Surviving length 15mm.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1A0016
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag, circular, 12.5mm diameter, central perforation in centre of ring and dot, 4 ring and dots and two perforations in outer border.
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1A44A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British disc brooch, tinned, traces of blue enamel decoration. Total diameter 33mm. Central circle c. 9mm in diameter, recessed for possible (missing) setting around which is a plain tinned band c. 3mm in width, surrounded by a circle of 22 pellets, a further plain band, and the outermost band consists of hemispherical pellets. Catchplate on reverse projects further than the diameter of the brooch, iron corrosion adhering to double pin lug. See Hattatt no.1564, 2nd century.
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-28D914
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British dolphin brooch, rearward hook, wings with engraved saltires and a groove at both terminals, spring missing. Lozenge-sectioned bow with longitudinal moulding on both sides, and in down centre, with a suggestion of notched decoration towards the foot, broken catch-plate on reverse. Similar to Hattatt no. 17, but with engraving on wings. Wingspan 51 x 33.5mm. c.43-65 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-28FA14
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval belt/strap mount, rectangular 12 x 24mm, engraved line border around central lozenge; engraved zigzags in surrounding triangular fields holes in centre and for two copper alloy rivets. Dress Accessories no.1054 late 14th- early 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2938E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Colchester one piece brooch, rearward hook, 43mm x >11mm wingspan, spring still attached, Hattatt no.14. 1st century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-295438
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British colchester one piece brooch, rearward hook, 55mm x >11mm wingspan, spring missing, stub of broken catchplate. Hattatt no. 14. 1st century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-296856
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British colchester one piece brooch, rearward hook, 51mm x >12mm wingspan, spring missing, stub of broken catchplate. Hattatt no. 14. 1st century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2990E1
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British hairpin, 63mm, biconvex head with four engraved lines radiating from tip, crossed over by four horizontal lines around the edge. Maximum diameter of head 8mm, below which a horizontal groove bisects the head, and the shaft of the oval-sectioned pin tapers from here. Crummy (1983) no.480.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-29F266
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British Hod Hill brooch, tinned. Below the (broken) pin attachment lugs, the flaring upper part of bow has three longitudinal grooves ending at two horizontal grooves across the lower, thinner part of the brooch, which ends in a sub-rectangular knop with a horizontal groove across it. Some of catchplate remains, many file marks visible on reverse. Total length 49mm, wingspan 13mm. Closest to Hattatt nos 50 & 1501. c. 43-70 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2A0458
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British colchester type two-piece derivative brooch, ten-coiled spring still intact in rearward-facing hook, pin half missing. Catchplate also still intact, one circular aperture. Length 38mmm, width 18mm. Hattat nos. 256-258, 1st century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2A0FB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British zoomorphic brooch in the shape of a chicken, pointed oval in plan, domed body of chicken inlaid with enamel wings and triangular neck feathers. Comb on top of stylised head slightly worn, ring and dot eye. Flat, almost hemispherical tail with missing point, pierced above double pin lug with copper alloy spindle. Fragment of flat copper alloy pin remains on spindle. 21x 33mm (including tail) x 32mm in height. Hattatt no. 167, 2nd century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-2EA5F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 fragments of post-medieval copper alloy spurs, (1) short D-sectioned fragment broken at both ends, decorated with incised and stamped foliate decoration, length 25mm, width 11.5mm; (2) broken D-sectioned side with transversely set figure-of-eight terminal, length 36.5mm, width 14mm; (3) broken D-sectioned angled side with broken perforated angled terminal, length 45mm, width 12mm, see an example from Beeston Castle, Cheshire which was dated to c. 1620- c. 1646 (Ellis, B. in Ellis, P. 1993, 165, fig. 112 no. 2).. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-30B347
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy buckle frame: five-sided frame with double-concave outside edge and concave sides, perforation in central expansion and both angles on outside edge each contain a decorative dome-headed copper alloy rivet, stumps of missing offset narrowed bar. Length 23mm, width 33mm. See Whitehead (2003), no.110. c. 1250-1400.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-687C00
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle plate, very worn and corroded, slightly trapezoidal plate with wyvern passant in relief, twin perforations in broad end, bent and broken across possible pin-slot and recessed sides at narrowed end, which is, unusually, on the left-hand side. >29 x 15mm. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A4EC4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval elaborate button, comprising a squashed hollow sphere (diameter 17mm) with twin twisted median bands at junction between two hemispheres between four large double twisted wire annulets and four single twisted wire annulets surrounding central annulet containing a further twisted annulet containing a boss of five pellets on the outer half and a squashed wire loop on the inner half. Length >19mm. 16th century. The decoration clearly relates to that found on ball-headed pins, cf. Margeson (1995) Ball-Headed Pins: A Typological Puzzle in A. Longcroft and R. Joby (eds.) and…
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A7CF7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Medieval/Post-Medieval drop handle from a vessel, fragment of horizontal bar with obliquely-angled knop at angle with vertical side, projecting horizontal terminal inserted into a heavily cast terminal collar in the form of a stylised animal (lion) head (combined, >32 x 39mm), incised and moulded details of eyes, ears and mouth, retains separate shouldered attachment-loop with integral rivet (26 x 20mm). Cf. Egan (1998) fig.143, no.487.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6BBCC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval cast Borre-style disc brooch. Decoration of concave-sided lozenge with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots. In the centre is a sunken circular field. Around the damaged edge is a plain raised border. The decoration is worn, as on most recorded examples. On the reverse is a rectangular scar from the missing catch-plate or pin lug and a small probably accidental perforation at the opposite edge. However, there is no trace of the corresponding element for securing the pin. This brooch is of a type commonly found in East Anglia,…
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thrandeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6BDF61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age/Romano British Colchester type one-piece brooch, with forward-facing hook, spring missing, short wings, tapering oval-sectioned bow with bent terminal and remains of catch-plate, 11 x 57mm. c.20-60 AD.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6BF3A8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British strap-slide from a military belt or harness, plate cast in the form of a fleur-de-lis projecting from a rectangular base with line of four bosses along lower edge and decorated with engraved ring-and-dot, large rectangular loop on reverse. 17 x 27mm, 12mm gap between plate and frame). 4th–5th century.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C0E91
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval knife end-stop, bifurcated with stylised addorsed animal-head terminals with dots for eyes, beak-like mouths and a constriction forming the neck above the oval-sectioned body with oblique lines forming zig-zag between engraved bordering lines, retains corroded fragment of iron tang. 18 x 19mm (excluding tang). Cf. broadly similar type in Read (2001), no.655. Late 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C2B43
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual Post-Medieval tinned mount from belt or harness, cruciform with vertical with transverse ribs and both arms formed from three vertical ribs of diminishing length (stepped) towards terminals (26 x 40mm). Broken rectangular-sectioned spike at both ends (length >9mm). 17th century.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-005BA8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy vessel with small lug handles springing from just below and reaching slightly above the simple rim, one of which is pierced. There is a pronounced casting seam down the sides and around the rounded base. Perhaps unfinished. Height 52mm. Rim diameter 17 – 21mm. Maximum diameter 33mm. There are at least eleven examples of these vessels, some inscribed with crosses, from Norfolk, from Bacton, Blo Norton, Great Dunham, Hellington, Hockering, Long Stratton, Marsham, East Ruston, Norton Subcourse and Whinburgh. A similar example inscribed: OLEVM CHRISM (chr…
Created on: Friday 28th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F92525
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval trapezoidal strap loop with a separate internal rivet and a circular rove. 14 x 12.4mm, 11mm internally. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0F1082
Object type: RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano British copper alloy finger ring, flat band decorated with alternating broad and narrow transverse grooves. Internal diameter 21mm. Width of band 6mm.
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6667C2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with unpierced lug at top. Circular, diam. 25mm. Cross crosslet. : S' IVLIAN' . FIL' · AD'N (Seal of Julian or Juliana, son or daughter of Adam). The first N is retrograde. The second is prograde but elongated, and is probably intended to be M. If not then Adrian is possible (Reaney and Wilson 1991, 3).
Created on: Monday 15th December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F15643
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mount from a belt-hanger, cast in the form of an unusual stylised possible crown, with a separate sheet strip folded widthways to form a loop, riveted onto the reverse and held in place by a circular rove (loop bent to side 21 x 11mm). Loop retains a separate knopped trapezoidal copper alloy hanger (21 x 12mm). Cf. related type in Tattenhoe and Westbury (1995) 336, Tattenhoe cat. no.40, fig.153, no.64.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1DF8C7
Object type: LEASH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of an unusual swivel from a leash, consisting of a circular-sectioned loop with a stylised animal-head projecting from the outside edge of both terminals just before they join a linking perforated oval plate containing the corroded remains of an iron rivet (on which the other missing part would have swivelled). 32mm x 22mm. Swivels are complex composite objects that might have been used on leashes when hunting with hounds, and smaller examples could conceivably have been used for lapdogs or even in association with hawking. They are usually found with stylised animal-head ter…
Created on: Friday 24th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A67AE8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle-Late Saxon finger-ring with a narrow D-sectioned hoop and lozengiform bezel. The latter is decorated with an engraved animal in Trewhiddle style, now rather worn. Three transverse engraved lines mark both the junctions of the hoop and the bezel. The extant diameter is 22.5mm; the interior diameter is 19.5mm. The width of the hoop is 2.5mm and the width of the bezel is 11mm. It dates from the 9th century. Compare three silver examples, two from the PAS database (HAMP-C25EF3 and NMS-F27122) and one excavated from a 10th-century context in York (Webster and Backhouse 1991, …
Created on: Friday 11th March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 24th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gisleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B54D3
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead strainer or sieve, made from thick sheet (measuring 4mm) with a central perforation within three concentric lines of smaller perforations. There are traces of possible circular attachment on one face. It measures 68mm in diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Last updated: Sunday 12th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C7FA28
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Antoninus Pius, Rome, reverse female standing left with cornucopia, worn, AD138-61
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-13D5F3
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cheek ring from a Late Iron Age to Early Roman three-link bit, broken, worn and corroded, with the opposed stumps of the missing ring projecing from the sides of the internally projecting solid cast pear-shaped body at the end of the remains of a broken club-shaped link head. The surviving portion measures 37 x 66mm. Compare with a more elaborate example illustrated in MacGregor (1976), Early Celtic Art in North Britain vol II, no. 3. A similar form has recently been found in Cheshire (PAS database, awaiting number; others listed at LANCUM-535083 and WMID-028CF4). 1st ce…
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DB6233
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Saxon cruciform brooch, with a small, fully round top knob, a narrow head plate (9mm wide) and the side knobs missing. There is a notch on each side of the rectangular panel at the top of a facetted D-sectioned bow, which is broken at the base below a transverse line. The foot is also missing. Åberg 1926, Group I. The surviving piece measures 35mm in length. Mid to late 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DB7E35
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval prick spur, with broken and distorted sides which would have curved deeply below the wearer's ankle. There is a lozengiform goad (26mm long). May be compared with iron spurs of similar form in Ellis 2002, 15-17. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B09726
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, worn, corroded and broken where it is folded widthways. It has a slot for the missing pin and is recessed for the frame, and is pierced by two rivet-holes near the slot. Engraved linear decoration comprises a fleur-de-lis between two curled flanking fronds, broken across a perforation at the terminal. >33 x 25mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D53FB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester-type two-piece brooch (i.e. with Harlow-type double pierced lug), pin missing, with six-coil spring, undecorated wings, median rib on broken D-sectioned bow, foot missing. Wingspan 18mm. Length >14mm. c.43-c.80
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRESSINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E24AC6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, crowned A and crowned T (the crowns are of different forms). Impressed worn image probably a squirrel, see NMS 692F70, NMS-E8A18C, NMS-69A9C0 for probable parallels.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2011
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-43B313
Object type: LEASH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Swivel from medieval leash, only the male part extant, comprising a D-shaped link formed from two opposed animal heads with snouts attached to the discoidal outer part of the waisted and facetted sub-oval hemispherical part of the swivel. The beasts have long snouts, and crude features with groove between twin projecting ears and drilled holes for eyes. There is a line of drilled dots around the outer face of the discoidal element and further dots on the facetted sub-oval hemispherical part with short lines of engraved rocker-arm between and there is a short burred-over integral rivet…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2011
Last updated: Saturday 24th March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-01C567
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton of Hans Schultes II, rose-orb type of Nuremberg with master's name on both sides, cf Mitchiner 1388ff, further details illegible, 1586-1603
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C89862
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon bridle side link, trapezoidal-sectioned bar with broad transverse median rib flanked by two smaller ones, knopped lozengiform terminals both with oval perforation. 72 x 23mm. 10th-11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 8th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-35AB33
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon stirrup terminal, semi-circular sheath with broken upper edge, expanded sub-oval terminal facetted to produce lozengiform face and base, hollow reverse contains solder. 16 x >26mm. (not paralleled in Williams's (forthcoming) catalogue).
Created on: Monday 14th April 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lound', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5D9B16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment of copper alloy cruciform brooch, small part of head-plate and bow only. Bow, with rectangular panel forming facets, is 20mm wide, too substantial for a small-long. Ancient breaks. >25 x >19mm. Late 5th – 6th century.
Created on: Monday 28th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6EB2E6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy strap junction, heavily cast, comprising four conjoined hemispheres leaving central perforation, slight hollow on the reverse of each and opposed slight lumps on two, this as a result of casting or miscasting and not the broken and worn stumps of a loop or bar. 38 x 38mm. 72.27g. Cf. a broadly similar although more elaborate object in Macgregor (1976), vol.2, no.25.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6EF764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment of cruciform brooch, small part of animal-headed terminal, broken above and below nostrils, ancient breaks. >18 x >15mm. Late 5th – 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6F7973
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval hinge plate for book clasp, end with cast rolled projection for circular-sectioned bar to provide hinge for separate clasp (missing), terminal shaped like an union dome. Face decorated with four ring-and-dots on the terminal, longitudinal line of annulets between two rows of four foils and transverse notches on both chamfered sides. Two rectangular-sectioned spikes on reverse, bent outward to hold width of 4mm, scrap of leather survives. 49 x 20mm. Cf. Margeson (1993), 74-5, plate XIII. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FBAF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual medieval buckle frame, flat-sectioned (3mm thick) rectangular with an exaggeratedly broad outside edge with an obliquely-angled semi-circular knop on both angles, broad pin groove between ten large drilled dots, offset narrowed bar, pin missing. No parallel has been found. However, this buckle is possibly related to a number of examples with triangular expanded outside edge and broad pin groove in Whitehead (2003) nos.106-114. 42 x 40mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FCC22
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval incomplete silvered ball-headed pin, broken hollow head (diameter 14mm) with double-strand twisted median band between six twisted wire annulets each containing a central knop between three small annulets of twisted wire. There is a small knop and annulet between each of the six large annulets. The shank projects as a knop on the upper half and begins to taper and is bent and broken after it emerges from the base of the lower half (Length >21mm). Cf. Margeson 1995 Ball-Headed Pins: A Typological Puzzle in A. Longcroft and R. Joby (eds). 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FF562
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval horse harness mount, shield-shaped, creased and bent, edges damaged, cracked along one oblique crease where subsequently unbent, no obvious means of attachment to harness, fragments of blue enamel and shall patches of gilding survive, Azure a bend cotised between six lions rampant Or (52 x (unbent) 66mm). Arms of BOHUN, de, Earls of Hereford and Essex.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7008D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Fantail brooch, East Anglian type (pers. comm. D. Mackreth) stump of rearward-hook, damaged semi-circular wings both with remains of a knurled rib between two plain ribs, containing fragments of solder and spring, short D-sectioned bow bifurcates and continues as a moulding along the upper edge of the a trapezoidal foot with fine engraved bordering line. There are remains of a worn stump of a catch-plate on reverse. 13 x 27mm. c.50-60 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7013E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Romano-British Trumpet brooch, chain-loop missing, lug with remains of four loops of spring, enamelled with two small addorsed yellow triangles above opposing crescent head pattern containing decayed greenish enamel, broken above missing button and leg. 16 x >23mm. 1st-2nd century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-701E18
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Dolphin brooch, broken rearward hook, semi-circular wings both with reel and spool moulding, spring missing, broad knurled median rib between concave mouldings tapering towards foot, remains of broken catch-plate on reverse. 17 x 40mm. c.40-65 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-702DD6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post medieval shoe buckle, comprising remains of corroded iron spindle, tongue and pewter stud chape, the latter decorated in relief with a maker’s mark: S · R beneath and between a lion and unicorn supporting a crown (abstracted from the royal arms). Chape 30 x 14mm. c.1660-1720.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-19BEF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Romano-British hybrid sprung brooch, bow with two vertical lines of overlapping scale mouldings flanking median groove and flat back-plate cast in one piece as found on Aesica types, twin narrow ribs and broad outer rib on semi-circular wings, broken rearward hook, spring missing, triangular or fantail foot with moulded and drilled variant on Celtic broken-back scroll pattern. 18 x 29mm. 1st-2nd century AD.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-19D913
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval incomplete copper alloy buckle frame, just over half of double-oval, with transverse stepped lozengiform knop in centre of surviving outside edge and projecting beyond frame at both ends of narrowed central bar, pin missing. 50 (reconstructed) x 30mm. cf. a related type in Whitehead (2003) no.402. c.1550-1650.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-44AEF5
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal of Williams' Class L, with three rounded toe-like lobes, flat base projecting beyond aperture, horizontal rib at top. Much solder in aperture. Height 21mm. Base 23 x 22mm. Top 9 x 8mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Friday 24th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wordwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-44EDD4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval gilt copper alloy strap fitting with convex headed rivet, rounded terminal, expanding to distorted break. Although a flat strip, the object is clearly cast. A broad transverse moulded groove or flute next the end and two small projections on the sides combine with an area of closely spaced punched impressions to suggest an animal head. The remainder is covered with a curling stem and trefoil reserved against a background of similar punched impressions. Length >21mm. Maximum width 12.5mm. Probably 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wordwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20D560
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of medieval composite folding clasp, rectangular plate (10 x 15mm) with arched-sectioned bar mount attached with single rivet and the opposite edge curled around a separate circular-sectioned bar inserted into drilled holes in a flat-sectioned rectangular sheet frame, 17 x 17mm. cf. similar types in Dress Accessories (1991), figs.77-8. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20F002
Object type: COSMETIC ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British incomplete toilet implement, rectangular-sectioned body with narrowed broken projection at one end with transverse concave moulding between four obliquely notched ribs immediately below shoulders, the other end is bent and flares slightly towards break. >9 x (unbent) >47mm. cf. Crummy (1983), fig.62.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-367774
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy vessel, heavily cast with high lead content. Thick-walled oval ‘bag-shaped body, opposed twin perforated lugs for handles at rim. The base has three tiny perforations, two in the centre with a third to one side, forming an asymmetrical triangle. Diameter 36mm. Height 54mm. Weight 66.89g. There are at least ten other examples of these vessels from Norfolk: Bacton (HER 1073), Blo Norton (HER 21118), Great Dunham (HER 45424), Hellington (HER 34929), Hockering (HER 36541), Long Stratton (HER 16111), Marsham (HER 39717), Norton Subcourse (HER 36159) and two from Whi…
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Margaret', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AC9E73
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sword pommel, hollow cast ‘wheel pommel’, circular with external chamfer on both faces (diameter 48mm), rectangular perforation for tang at slightly flattened base (19 x 12mm) and smaller at top (12 x 7mm). Weighs 118.33g. cf. LMMC (1967) Fig.5, nos.1 and 2. 14th–15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.