Record ID: SF-5C6DE1
Object type: FORK (UTENSIL)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fork of possible Early-Medieval or later date. It is missing one prong and the terminal end due to old breaks. The object has an elongated body or handle that is rectangular in form, oval in cross section, and partially bent at the centre due to post-depositional damage. At the terminal end it flattened and flares horizontally towards a now incomplete terminal of uncertain form, both faces at the juncture with the terminal decorated with an incised cross saltire. At the centre of the body, where it is partially bent, is a beaded moulding formed from fiv…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2016
Last updated: Friday 26th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Braiseworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF11124
Object type: FORK (UTENSIL)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy fork-like object, this object is bent and consists of a shaft which measures about 90mm in length and has a square cross-section. One end of the shaft tapers and the other flares into a flat rectangular part, width 4mm and length 9mm, with three incomplete prongs projecting from its end. Although no exact parallel for this object could be found, it seems most likely to be a fork of some kind. Small Anglo-Saxon forks are known and a spoon-fork combination object has been found at Brandon, Suffolk, during excavations there; this is dated to the 9th century AD (Webster and…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.