Record ID: SF-6E1AB2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold sheet metal biconical bead with gold wire filigree decoration of early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) date. The two sections of the bead are each made from sheet metal rolled into truncated cones leaving a hole in the centre of their apex. One of these holes is encircled by applied beaded wire, but this is missing on the other. The two sections are joined together at their bases, the join then covered by two strips of beaded wire encircling this point. The outer face of each section is decorated with strips of beaded wire bent into three elongated triangles p…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0DE9BF
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold biconical coiled wire bead. It is hollow, and made from a single length of coiled beaded gold wire. Date: 7th century Dimensions: Length: 14.44mm, thickness: 7.40mm, weight: 2.47g Discussion: Biconical gold wire beads date to the second half of the 7th century (Geake 1997, 43). Other examples on the PAS database include one from Hoxne, Suffolk (SF-40CB01; 2009T344), Rowington, Warwickshire (PAS-2B1E44; 2002 T95); North Down, Kent (KENT-7009B3; 2003T207; Treasure Annual Report 2003, no.94, p.72, fig.94.2, p.214); Burmington, Warwickshire (PAS-C…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EC58CB
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gold bead, oval in plan and section with a small hole through its centre. Dimensions: length: 8.53mm, width: 7.38mm, weight: 3.85g Discussion: The date of this bead is unknown but it is likely to be more than 300 years old and possibly of early medieval date.
Created on: Monday 15th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D30D10
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold object, probably a bead, of possible Bronze Age date. It has been flattened due to post-depositional damage but otherwise appears intact. The object is rectangular in form and would originally have been tubular in form. It is decorated on its exterior surface be a series of 17 transverse incised grooves, seemingly incised individually and by hand with the result that they are slightly unevenly spaced and the ends of some of the grooves do not quite meet. There is some damage to the exterior surface in the form of small cracks and splits to the metalwork resultant from it being …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Clare', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B28293
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold ornament, probably a bead. The thin sheet of gold had been rolled into a cylindrical shape but has now been unfortunately crushed. It is decorated with sixteen transverse embossed grooves. There is a brown substance, probably soil, inside the crushed ornament. The probable bead is very rare for Britain and Ireland though a necklace of similar beads from Ireland is in the British Museum (BM 1853,0926.2). Although the presence of sheet-working technique and embossed decoration in Britain would suggest an Early-Middle Bronze Age date, parallels in Bronze Final individual burial cr…
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glemsford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-0FFBB2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold possible bead, date unknown. Ovoid in shape and hollow with holes through either end. At one end the hole is small, c1.3mm in diameter, but at the other end the hole is much larger, possibly as the result as damage, c3.9mm in diameter.
Created on: Thursday 11th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-40DD14
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold bead, probably from a necklace. This bead is squat and biconical in shape, gently tapering to the ends of the large circular perforation. Dimensions: 7.85mm in diameter at its widest point, 5.76mm in length and 1.99g in weight. The perforation is 4.96mm in diameter. Discussion: Although no close parallel for this bead could be found, a case can be made for it being Anglo-Saxon and 7th-century in date. Silver and gold beads were in use at this time, and could be made in a variety of forms from sheet metal to coiled wire. Precious-metal beads are rare in o…
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-40CB01
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete biconical gold bead from a 7th-century necklace. It is hollow, and made from a single length of coiled unbeaded gold wire with separate lengths of beaded wire wrapped around the terminals. A separate short length of beaded wire is also attached vertically to the centre of the front of the bead; this may originally have continued all around the centre of the bead. Biconical gold wire beads date to the second half of the 7th century (Geake 1997, 43). Other examples on the PAS database include one from Rowington, Warwickshire (PAS-2B1E44; 2002T95); one from North Down, Kent …
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 5th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4139
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and garnet fragment, possibly half of a rather long biconical bead. A hollow cone in shape, it has a circumferential band of cloisonne garnets around both the wider and the narrower end, and four longitudinal bands of cloisonne garnets running between. The band around the wider end had perhaps eight rectangular garnets originally, set in cloisons (cells); three survive now and two of the cloisons are badly crushed. A strip of gold projecting from the edge of this crushed area may be part of the attachment to the other half of the bead, or part of a suspension loop if the object …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.