Record ID: NMS87
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pendant, square, gilding survives mainly within engraved decoration. Blazon: a lion passant gardant. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MENDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS832
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval cast copper-alloy eagle figurine, perhaps from the lid of a vessel. Casting seam around sides of head and wings (wingspan of 40mm), feathers indicated by fine engraved lines and modelling. The bird has a flat base rather than feet, pierced by an iron rivet that continues through the body of the bird, with much corrosion on the upper body. Cast birds similar to the example noted here turn up on a fairly regular basis. Although they have often been given a Romano-British date, the large number of almost identical figurines now known as a result of metal-detecting may i…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKHAMBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS834
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy bell-shaped stud, probably from furniture. 34 mm in diameter, it has a prominent central conical projection and an integral blunt wedge-shaped projection on reverse. The reverse is usually socketed for a large inserted iron rivet. Cf South Shields (1984) 3.889-3.907. Romano-British.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANDON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS920
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
This rather unusual object is similar to a mini terret in so far as it has a ring, presumably through which a strap passed. Unlike a typical mini terret, which would have an inset attachment bar at the base, this artefact has an attachment loop that is set at a 90° angle to the ring and hidden behind a decorative 'button'. How this object functioned is unclear, however, it is not isolated in terms of form. There are similar examples of 'mini terrets' with attachment loops hidden behind or integral to a decorative moulding (Bawdeswell and Ketteringham, Norfolk). A date in the late 1st …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LOUND', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS921
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
RB Ae Dolphin brooch, corroded, semi-circular wings with oblique knurled rib on both, spring missing, backward hook, traces of oblique line/s on bow, broken catch-plate, 32 x 45mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LOUND', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1098
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
RB Two-piece Colchester brooch, upper part of rear-facing lug, chord, most of pin, ends of wings & all below upper part of bow missing. Battered bow appears to have median rib & three longitudinal grooves. Spring has eight coils.
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.

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Record ID: NMS1099
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval horse harness pendant and suspension mount. Both elements are scallop-shaped and gilded on their convex front faces. Both have a centrally placed circular perforation. The pendant is suspended & still swings from a copper-alloy spindle held by a fold in the mount. Overall length 51mm, width 15mm. 13th cent.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLYTHBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1100
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Incomplete dagger chape. Small rounded terminal knop below radiating lines forming a shell motif. Above these a horizontal row of circular perforations & then two horizontal slashed ribs above & below three more circular perforations. The top is broken raggedly, probably across further perforations or shaped upper edge. LMMC type III. 31+ x 25mm. 15th cent.
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.

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Record ID: NMS1101
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
PM Distorted & incomplete rowel spur, rowel & half on one side missing. Sides are of flattened D-section, surviving one ending in symmetrically placed figure-of-eight terminal.. Slightly drooping short neck with one bulbous & one narrow moulding. Rowel box with small rowel bosses. Length of neck & box 17mm. Overall length now approx. 95mm. For a child or small adult. 17th cent.
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.

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Record ID: NMS1221
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
LMED Ae fragment of ?buckle frame, oval with five lobes on surviving outside edge, frame curves to ?originally very narrow open projection at attachment edge with single lobe on outside edge, ?pin-bar and ?pin missing. Difficult to see quite how this arrangement would work.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LOUND', grid reference and parish protected.