Record ID: SF-F93739
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Earl Medieval to Medieval lead-alloy stylus dating dating to circa AD 1000-1100. Now bent out of shape to the point that it has folded back on itself, the piece is circular-sectioned. The terminal has a flat end whilst the nib end is pointed. it shares similarities with Biddle's class I writing lead, with more similarities to example 2290, dating to 10th century (Biddle, 1990: p.742-743, fig 211, 2290.)
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-51DBC8
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval lead-alloy stylus dating to circa AD 1200-1400. It is circular-sectioned. The nib end is spatulate. It has a creamy patina and is undecorated.  Martin Biddle in 'Artefacts from medieval Winchester: object and economy in medieval Winchester' (C.U.P. 1990), records similar items on pages 735-8 and 741-6, as class II, and dates them to the 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-784BA3
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, but bent, medieval to post-medieval lead stylus. Is is sub-circular in cross-section with one blunt end and one pointed, functional end. It has been bent into a C-shaped and the surface of the metal has a whitish-grey corroded patina. Biddle (1990, 735-8 and 741-6) records similar items as his Class II, which he dates to the 13th - 14th centuries. It shares particular similarities with his fig.2313 (ibid., 745), which he dates to the 13th century. However, Styli like these were used from the Medieval to Post-Medieval period and so are difficult to date precisely
Created on: Monday 31st July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-284AB0
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead stylus. It is sub-rectangular in section with one broken end and flattened funtional tip at the other. It has a buff-grey patina and has some rough grooves along its length. Biddle (1990, 735-8 and 741-6) records similar items as his Class II, which he dates to the 13th - 14th centuries. It shares particular similarities with his fig.2313 (ibid., 745), which he dates to the 13th century. However, Styli like these were used from the Medieval to Post-Medieval period and so are difficult to date precisely
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-EFC5FD
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead stylus or ‘writing lead’ (Biddle (1990, 735-738)), 86mm in length, with a round cross section of 6.5mm diameter. One end tapers to a point, the other has a large and unusually well made rectangular eraser terminal, 17mm in length, 9.6mm wide and 4.5mm thick. This has a bevelled chisel tip and is decorated with an incised saltire on both broad faces.
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-59A4FE
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment of Roman to Early Medieval stylus, dating to AD 43-800. It consists of an oval cross-sectioned shaft, which tapers towards a blunt tip. The surfaces are pitted and affected by corrosion. The break at the upper edge is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the stylus. The stylus was used in the Roman world, was re-introduced in the 7th century, and continued in use until at least the 12th century. It is not always easy to distinguish Roman, Early Medieval and Medieval styli, especially when they are as fragmentary as this one. Length: 47.61 mm …
Created on: Monday 20th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-813596
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probably Early Medieval stylus, dating to AD 700-900 It consists of a sub-rectangular cross-sectioned shaft, which has a flaring eraser at one end; the shaft breaks at the opposite end after 28.88 mm. At the base of the eraser the shaft bends slightly sideways and might have had a moulded collar. The eraser's faces have traces of iron corrosion products. Cf with LIN-F2F045. Length:52.80 mm Width of the eraser: 17.73 mm Thickness of the eraser: 3.29 mm Width of the shaft: 4.66 mm Thickness of the shaft: 3.22 mm Weight: 5.69 g.
Created on: Friday 24th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfiled', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3F30E3
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object, perhaps the eraser from an early-medieval stylus. The surviving fragment is triangular, flattening as it flares with straight edges towards the widest edge, which is incomplete due to old breaks. At the narrower end is a raised collar giving the object an oval cross-section, raised on both front and reverse. Above this, the object terminates in old breaks. It has a dark green/brown patina that is worn in places, has some pitting and evidence of post-depositional corrosion. The entire fragment measures 27.17mm in length, 29.35mm in width, 6.86…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0F4415
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy stylus, probably of Early Medieval date. The metal is worn and patinated, obscuring any decoration, although there are traces of bands of grooved lines on the shaft. The stylus has a flat terminal ( or eraser) which is triangular in shape, and its shaft is circular in section, terminating in a point. The shaft is bent and the lower section and terminal have been bent at right angles, forming a square hook shape. The stylus measures 85.35mm in length (bent), and the shaft is 3.8mm in diameter. The straight edge of the flat terminal measures 12.41mm in length, and the sty…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4A0127
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead object, possibly a stylus, of probable Post-Medieval or later date. It is rectangular in form, square in section and tapers to a sharpened point. The entire object has been slightly bent at the centre due to post-depositional damage and has a seam running the length of one side suggesting it was folded and then hammered into shape. In its current form the object measures 83.19mm in length (bent), 7.49mm in width, 6.12mm in thickness, and weighs 30.88g. This is possibly a simple lead stylus, although other functions cannot be ruled out entirely. It is likely to be Post-Medi…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Cornard', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-26DA64
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval probable stylus, or writing lead. The object is complete and triangular in shape. One terminal comes to a point, and the shaft is circular becoming oval in section as it broadens toward the upper terminal. This is flattened, 4.5mm in thickness and angled at the centre above a circular perforation which us surrounded by a narrow collar. The stylus measures 35.6mm in length, 11.82mm in width and varies in thickness between 2.75mm at the pointed end to 7mm at the upper end just below the perforation. It weighs 11.7g. An eighteenth-nineteenth century date…
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 29th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E0FD88
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead stylus of Roman or later date. It has an oval shaped head with oval indentation on the upper surface. Beneath the head is a crudely incised neck before the stylus expands to a cylindrical body that tapers to a sharpened point. Just beneath the neck there are a series of unevenly incised transverse grooves. This object measures 42.54mm in length, 7.93mm in width, 9.15mm in thickness, and weighs 13.04g. Styli such as this had a long period of usage spanning the Roman through Modern periods. A close parallel has not been identified for the current example and it may the…
Created on: Friday 2nd July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 7th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-CB9490
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead probable stylus for writing on slate with tapering terminal ends. This stylus is bent in its centre and has signs of recent possibly agricultural damage, it has a roughly circular cross-section and measures c82mm in length, if straightened, and 8mm in width. A similar lead stylus is illustrated in Detector Finds (Gordon Bailey, 1995, p52-53, no 5), he states that these are difficult to date but are often associated with post medieval sites which date pre-1700.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felsham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1585
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tanged Ae stylus with an eraser gently flaring out from the shaft, the approximate end of the eraser indicated by three shallow incised transverse grooves ?scoured or cut into the metal. Slight surface corrosion and pitting, together with stress cracking where bent, make it difficult to trace some of the grooves, but esentially they are grouped into (an average) three grooves and used in more or less equally-spaced bundles along the entire length of the stylus shaft. Towards the point some of these grooves are very ephemeral indeed and are at a slight angle. The point is pitted obsc…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLYTHBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10056
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy stylus, damaged at the eraser end and very corroded. The shaft appears to be circular in section, tapering slightly towards the eraser; however there are traces of facets suggesting that it might have been octagonal in section. The point, which is 21mm long, is sharply differentiated from the shaft. The eraser end is less sharply defined and consists of a gently broadening flattened area, surviving 16mm long and up to 5.5mm wide. Stylii occur in both Roman and Anglo-Saxon contexts; although Roman examples are commonly iron the shape, particularly of the point, is more like…
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRAISEWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9941
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy fitting most likely to be from a stylus-like implement. The terminal is in the shape of a Romanesque dragon, 78mm in length and 13mm in width at its widest point. The dragon holds a circular ball in its jaws which is 6mm in diameter. Its snout is broad and its eyes are oval and bulbous; there are rows of circular indentations either side of the snout and beneath and behind the eyes. The dragon has two small triangular-shaped ears set well back on the top of the head, which is fairly flat. The neck has a circumferential ring of circular indentations around it; it i…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.