Back to simple search | Back to advanced search
You searched for:
Record ID: SF3807
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Enigmatic object made of cast copper alloy with a longm slightly flaring base and a horned-head terminal. The base is square in section, measuring 8 mm square at its largest, and is hollow for the lower half of its 24 mm length. The two sides each have a bold central rib running down their length, and are poorly finished; the front and back are undecorated. At the top of the base is a hollow cylindrical area with the perforation running between the tops of the two ribs. Above this is a simplified but naturalistic three-dimensional human head, with squarish modelling forming two eyebro…
Created on: Friday 27th October 2000
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'TUDDENHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3811
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Stirrup-strap mount, now in two halves found 5 months apart but apparently in the same place. Made of copper alloy, it is basically triangular with outcurving sides; it has openwork decoration and is partly gilded. The two halves both have old breaks and have corroded to slightly different colours. In places around the edge (top right and bottom left as you look at it, plus a short length along the base) a silver (mineralised niello?) border survives, decorated with a delicately engraved vertically repeated S-shaped line, probably originally inlaid silver wire. A border of this kind i…
Created on: Friday 27th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3862
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bow and foot from an unusual long brooch, probably a small-long but possibly a cruciform brooch . The bow starts with a fairly fresh break at the upper flat panel; there is a trace of iron corrosion on the reverse here. The flat panel is decorated with two transverse grooves and below this tapers to a point. Below this the bow is facetted, with a double row of punched dots down the centre. The lower flat panel is the same pentagonal shape as the upper one, but does not have the double transverse groove. Below the bow is a flat panel ending in a double transverse groove, then a pan…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3871
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strip of copper alloy which could be a fragment of girdle-hanger or which could be a fragment of bucket mount. It is broken at both ends and less than 1 mm thick. At one end the strip is 6.5 mm wide; the 'break' is shallowly slanting and may in fact be an ancient cut. The strip then flares gently for about half its length before curving out (like the shoulders of a bottle) to 12 mm wide. It is slightly curved along its length and the outer face is decorated with a line of annular stamps down either edge. The ?cut at the narrower end cuts through one of the stamps.
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3872
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch missing the terminal to its foot but otherwise complete. The headplate is sub-circular, slightly wider than it is long, and is now bent on one side. It has two lines of double-crescent stamps running down the centre of the headplate, and traces of a border of annulet stamps which originally ran around the edge of the headplate. On the reverse is a pin bar lug whose perforation has worn through; there is a little iron staining around it. The bow has a flat panel at top and bottom, each decorated with two transverse grooves. In between the bow is facet…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3873
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Narrow cruciform brooch made of copper alloy, missing its foot (fresh break). The central panel of the headplate is the same width as the bow; there are traces of perhaps three or four ?double-crescent stamps running down each side. The wings are of thinner metal and have broken away almost completely (very old breaks). The top knob survives, chunky and full-round and cast in one with the headplate. It consists of a circular disc, then a waist and then a hemispherical terminal. On the reverse of the headplate is a pin bar lug with remains of the iron pin bar. The bow is steeply c…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3874
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch, probably of small-long type, with both the head and foot plate incomplete. In fact it is hard to tell which is the head or foot; both plates have a longitudinal ridge on the reverse, one of which is shorter and has a very slight dip in the centre, perhaps the remains of a perforation. This end therefore has a greater claim to being the headplate! All edges appear to be broken leaving a sub-oval shape 19.5 mm long and 16 mm wide. Corrosion makes any decoration invisible. The bow is chunky and sharply humped with a facet to either side and a triangular facet to …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3875
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Headplate of cruciform brooch. The central panel is raised but corrosion has removed most or all of the surface along with any decoration. There are larger corrosion bubbles down either side, which may possibly mark the site of lost stamps. Most of the wings are broken away. The top knob survives, cast in one with the headplate; it is quite rounded but flat on the reverse, and consists of a large hemispherical lobe with a narrow waist and raised band beneath. On the reverse of the headplate is a ridge which is all that remains of the pin bar lug. The break at the top of the bow i…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3876
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglian equal-armed brooch, part of bow and foot missing. The head is the usual triangular shape flaring to 27 mm wide; the corners are rounded. There is corrosion over most of the surface, so any decoration is invisible; where the surface does appear it is quite grey, so there may have been some white-metal coating. On the reverse is a broken pin bar lug and remains of the iron spring. The bow continues the gentle taper of the head; it is 12 mm wide at the junction with the head and 6.5 mm wide at the very fresh break. There is a short flat panel at the top but no decoration can …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF3877
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver buckle, burnt and partially melted, probably during a cremation ceremony. The buckle has a large oval frame and pin which are attached to a small flattened semi-circular plate.
Length 39mm, width 27mm, weight 17.4g. X-ray fluorescence at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 79%.
This type of buckle is well known on the Continent from the late 5th century, and examples are very occasionally found in early Anglo-Saxon contexts.
See Treasure Annual Report 2000, no. 71.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Records per page: 10 20 40 100
Sort your search by:
Which direction?
Total results available: 897
Search server index: objects
You are viewing records: 91 - 100.