Record ID: SF-4777D4
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead dumb-bell shot dating to circa AD 1600-1800. Cast in one piece, it consists of two D-shaped terminals joined by a narrowed and constricted mid section. It has a creamy white patina.  Similar examples are recorded under SWYOR-D23605 and BERK-47F5A9
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-25F2C3
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a lead alloy ingot. It is slightly wider at the base than the top, and narrow along its length. There are no distinguishing marks, and has an even brown patina. There is no indication that it was used by suspension, although half of it is missing.The shape would suggest a relatively modern origin. Dimensions: 34m wide and 32mm long, 21mm high, it weighs 199.84g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-EC3D11
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead-alloy token dating to circa AD 1600-1800. It is discoidal in plan with uniface decoration. In the centre is a raised pellet with a cross and saltire through it. The terminals of the cross are fleur de lis.  The token is consistent with Powell Type 14
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-40FEC6
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Post Medieval cast lead alloy handle for a tobacco box, c.AD 1600-1790. The handle is broadly oval in plan and irregular in profile. The central handle is broadly decorated as a flower. It has a central raised boss, which expands into a series of eight radiating lentoid shaped petals. The neck below the handle becomes narrow before expanding outwards in a slanting platform with the remains of a rivet protruding from underneath. Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Detector Finds', number 4 page 62, which he dates to the middle of the 17th century and s…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-40FB3C
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval cast lead alloy possible toy gun, c.AD 1800-1900. This is likely to be one half of the cast grip from a miniature toy pistol, with moulded detail representing a handle textured with rhomboids, extending from a flat butt with a lug containing a rivet hole to the proximal edge of a plate with beaded border, which would be next to the lock of a flintlock gun. On the flat reverse, a single oval inset appears, where the decoration on the obverse rises up. The entire fragment is patinated. The antique form may be an unreliable guide to the date …
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-272CEC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy post-medieval button. Discoidal with much of the shank missing. The outer face is decorated with a central pellet with lines radiating outwards from it, although this is heavily obscured by corrosion and sections are missing from the edges.  See Read 2005, 73, no.270 for comparison. Read (ibid.) dates this to the 16th to early 17th century, but other examples in the group span both centuries
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2724C3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy post-medieval button. Discoidal with much of the shank missing. The outer face is decorated with a central pellet with lines radiating outwards from it. The metal is heavily corroded and sections are missing from the edges.  See Read 2005, 73, no.270 for comparison. Read (ibid.) dates this to the 16th to early 17th century, but other examples in the group span both centuries. 
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E76099
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy button of post-medieval. The front of the head is domed to a rounded point with recessed lines radiating outwards from the centre. There is an integral attachment projecting 4.21mm from the reverse, but the loop is missing. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. See Read (2010, 69-75) for numerous examples, most of which seem to be of 16th or 17th century date.
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E3395E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead-alloy cloth seal of probable post-medieval date. Originally this would have comprised two discs attached together via a lug projecting from the reverse of on and passing through a hole in the centre of the other. Now all that remains is the lug, squashed flat, with part of an unclear heraldic design on its outer end where it would have sat through the hole. The surface of the metal is hevaily corroded and the details are unclear. The design suggests a post-medieval date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during t…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Peasenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-690B7C
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead Post Medieval two-part cloth seal. It is a double disc seal, which is folded along a narrow connecting strip. The seal has been squashed.  One disc has a stamped decoration slightly off center of the middle; the decoration consists of a gate comprised of a raised square with nine squares within it. The second disc is undecorated and the rivet can be seen in the centre.
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.