Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-735931
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead object, possibly a gaming piece of later Early-Medieval date. It is pyramidal in form with hollow back face and moulded decoration on the front face. The moulded decoration comprises four evenly spaced vertical ridges that run the length of the object and taper towards the rounded top. It measures 16.18mm in height, 18.31mm in length, 17.48mm in width, and 16.55g in weight. Similar conical lead objects with hollow back faces and moulded decoration are noted from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (for example SF-C01997, SF-50B784, SF-6F5256 and SF-6F7361). They are interpreted …
Created on: Monday 19th March 2012
Last updated: Saturday 19th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E8A4D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of late Early-Medieval date. It is missing the pin and the outer edges of the pin lugs due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, circular in form and with relief decoration on the front face. This comprises a double stranded border within which is contained an animal or beast in the Jellinge style. The animal is positioned in a reverse S-shape and has a triangular head with oval shaped eyes and a bulbous open jaw. Extending from the base of the mouth is a double-stranded tongue that interlaces with the body and one leg. The curving neck and body run along o…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E49135
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead brooch of 'hub-cap' type (Weetch type 17), of late Early-Medieval date, probably 10th or 11th century. It is circular, 26.7mm in diameter and 1.25mm thick, with a central circular hole (7.65mm in diameter) surrounded by a raised edge. It weighs 10.08g. There are four evenly spaced raised hollow-backed bosses or domes, 4.44mm in diameter, around the edges, each pushed up from the back of the brooch. There is a small sub-circular hole through the lead between two of the domes. There is a lead loop catchplate on the back of the brooch, and remains of an attachment point for a pin.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C76146
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead nummular brooch of late early medieval date, 9th-10th century AD, now incomplete as a fragment of one side is missing due to an old break. It is of Weetch's Type 2.Aii, imitating the reverse of a coin. This brooch is flat and circular, and measures c26.54mm in diameter. The front is worn but decorated with a moulded design. There is a cross in the centre within a circular moulding. There are irregular moulded lines around the border of the brooch which do not make sense as letters, either as they are or when an impression was taken. It therefore seems most likely that they ar…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-221F20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead object with full-face Style I decoration. The fragment measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width. The reverse is flat and the front has relief decoration of a full-face animal mask, with large rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square-ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the object flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges. This object could be a lead model used in the manufacture of a cast copper-alloy object, or it cou…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CBDDE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 5. It is circular in shape, measuring 33mm in diameter, it is flat and 1.6mm thick. The front face of this brooch is decorated with eight concentric grooves with a circular knop in the centre of the brooch measuring 3.8mm in diameter. On the back face the integral catch plate and pin attachment, consisting of two opposing oval shaped projections, each with a circular perforation through them to accomodate the now missing pin, are complete. Weetch dates this type to the 10th century.
Created on: Friday 13th February 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7F8383
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An unusual lead strap end, possibly a test or template. It is rectangular in shape, measuring 23mm in length and 20mm in width. It has a split attachment end, the front face of which has two parallel circular indentations, one near to each corner, which do not perforate the back face. Below these indentations there is are two parallel rectangular incisions, and beneath these the terminal end is decorated with a central zoomorphic head, with oval shaped hollows to either side of it. This head is facing forwards, has pointed ears and snout. The back face of this strap end is flat and un…
Created on: Monday 29th September 2003
Last updated: Sunday 2nd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mellis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9B2FA3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A very unusual possible lead weight. It is circular in shape with a diameter of 17mm and a thickness of 7mm. Slightly off centre on one face there is a lattice work indentation, which is circular in outline with a diameter of 11.5mm. No parallel could be found for this object but it seems most likely that it functioned as a weight of some sort. Its date is unknown but it seems most likely to be medieval, or possibly even late early medieval, as this lattice design was used during this period.
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-70DB56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a lead early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, measuring 16mm in length and 16mm in width. The fragment consists of part of the head plate and one half-round side knob, which is not detachable. The rest of the brooch is missing and the breaks are old. It is unusual to discover lead early Anglo-Saxon brooches; this brooch could have been used as such or may possibly have been a template or test brooch.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.