Record ID: SF-BD607D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a gold early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch or pendant. It is roughly triangular in shape with a curved outer edge and two straight sides where the fragment has broken from the rest of the object. The edge of the curved side is bent upwards towards the outer face and a strip of beaded gold wire is soldered just behind this. The fragment survives in good condition. Dimensions: Length: 16.71mm, width: 10.90mm, thickness: 1.54mm, weight: 0.45g Discussion: Beaded gold wire filigree decoration is most common on early Anglo-Saxon artefacts of the late 6th to …
Created on: Wednesday 30th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DC15C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gold early medieval pierced Anglo-Frisian gold Solidus, dating to the period c.AD 825-850, imitating a Solidus of Louis the Pious (AD 814-840). Obverse: D(reverse)IIVIIIVDOIIIVIG (copying DN LVDOVICVS IMP AVG) Crude laureate, draped bust right with long vertical bar for nose, raised oval eye and blurred jawline. Struck slightly off-centre. Reverse: IIIIIVIIIIOIVIII (copying MVNVS DIVINVM) Suspended wreath containing a large cross pattée linked to wreath on vertical axis Dimensions: Diameter: 22.33mm, thickness: 1.84mm, weight: 3.81g The object conta…
Created on: Wednesday 26th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3ABEB9
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold object comprising a hollow dome with a projecting socket and separately-soldered back-plate. The dome is decorated all over its upper surface with filigree and granulation. In the centre is a raised circular setting comprising a strip of gold surrounded by a beaded wire collar, and set with a small blue glass cabochon. Around this is a lozenge-shaped field delimited by a single strand of gold beaded wire, which overall gives a cruciform effect. The outer terminal of each cross arm is marked with a cluster of pellets. The lozengiform field is filled with granulation, or…
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1E0E5D
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold bead pendant now squashed and distorted. The bead was originally spherical and is hollow; it has a gold rivet through its centre which terminates in a circular loop at the upper end, from which it could have been suspended. The upper edge of the bead has a single band of beaded gold wire applied. Dimensions: 3.20g in weight, 18.87mm in length, 13.17mm in width and 6.23mm in thickness. The suspension loop is 7.93mm external width and 6.59mm in external height, and 5.04mm in internal width and 4.51mm in internal height. Discussion: No published paralle…
Created on: Friday 6th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5DE284
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval gold coin, a contemporary 9th-century Anglo-Frisian copy of a Carolingian solidus of Louis the Pious (814-840). The coin has been partially bent due to post-depositional damage.
Created on: Friday 16th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A17295
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of uncertain type, c.6th-7th centuries AD.
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F3F683
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A 7th-century Early-Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis; c.600-675 AD; mint: Quentovic (Wicus); moneyer: Dutta; Lafaurie, 1996: nos. 62-66b.
Created on: Monday 17th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4AA4E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold 7th-century Anglo-Saxon shilling modified for usage as a pendant or similar item, c.660-680 AD. It is of Sutherland type II.ii.var: Roman: Constantine (26var) with star-like object on the obverse instead of hand and cross as in Sutherland 26. The coin has been pierced and the remains of a separately cast cylindrical silver rivet are present towards one side of the flan, indicative of modification for usage as something other than a coin. Coins of this period were commonly either looped or pierced for suspension and worn as pendants, and it is likely that the purpose of the…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-394035
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gold and cloisonné garnet mount in the form of the upper body of a bird of prey in profile looking left, now slightly crushed and distorted. The bird has a curving pointed beak, a rounded head and waisted neck. The mount was made from a gold backplate, with beaded-wire filigree soldered around its edge so that it is visible from both front and reverse. The beaded wire is c. 0.8-0.9mm in diameter and was made by using a swage to form rather irregular, angular beads, several with a medial seam or Äquatorschnitt. Attached to the front of the backplate are …
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A6A601
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of Dutta/Wicus, c.650-660 AD. As Lafaurie, 1996: nos. 84-86.
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2011
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.