Record ID: SF-540D13
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly concave copper-alloy disc, octagonal in shape, measuring c26mm by c25.5mm in size. Holes of varying sizes but all roughly circular in shape have been pushed through the disc from the slightly concave face to the other slightly convex face. The holes seem to be smaller near to the edge of the disc and they seem to be larger in its centre, they appear to be arranged in straightish horizontal rows. The excess metal around the holes on the convex face has been hammered down. The method of construction of the holes is similar to that on medieval strainers and skimmers, and it …
Created on: Monday 26th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-616FE5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object. This object is cast, flat and roughly oval in shape, measuring 30.7mm in length and 22.2mm in width at its widest point. The probable top of this object has what appears to be an incomplete suspension loop, on the same plane as the rest of the object. Below this it flares into an oval shape with open work decoration consisting of four evenly spaced roughly triangular shaped perforations, which forms a cross shape in the middle of the object, this has a small circular perforation in the centre of each arm. Projecting from the edge of t…
Created on: Thursday 27th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-613213
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A very unusual cast copper-alloy unidentified object, now bent in half, originally straight. It has a flat rectangular shaft, which would have measured about 47mm in length, if straight, it is 7.2mm in width. This shaft tapers towards its terminals. One terminal is complete and has a transverse ridge where it begins, the terminal is split into two slender arms, which each measures about 16.6mm in length and 2mm in width and taper to a point. Their tips are now bent towards each other and touch, however it is unclear if this is how they were originally, perhaps it is more likely tha…
Created on: Thursday 27th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E12D90
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a shield-shaped piece of copper-alloy sheet, with one edge straight and the other edges curving to a point. It is not flat, but slightly curved along the length of the straight edge. In the centre is a neat circular hole 4 mm in diameter. The front is decorated with radiating lines; although the object is corroded, these lines look as if they may have been made by rocking an engraving tool from side to side. This technique is characteristic of the late Anglo-Saxon period, and the metal used (now a rough light brown) is als…
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-82FC54
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object. Roughly rectangular in shape measuring 31mm in length and 13mm in width. All of the edges of this object are incomplete due to old breaks, therefore its original shape and size are not known. The front face of the object is very slightly convex, it appears to have been decorated and the remains of two longditudinal ridges, with transverse ridges inbetween can be seen. The back face is slightly concave and undecorated, there is the remains of a rectangular shaped protrusion near to the centre of the back face, 5mm in length and 3mm in …
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Braiseworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-100DD5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy unidentified object. It is circular in shape with a diameter of 17mm and is 1mm thick. Both faces of this object are decorated with a boarder of crescent shaped indentations. No parallel could be found for this object although the style of its decoration suggests that it may be Anglo Saxon in date.
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gislingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10574
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy unidentified object, 37mm in length and 17mm in width. This object is in the shape of an animals head and snout and is incomplete due to an old break at the neck end. It is rectangular in plan with rounded corners, and almost semi-circular in cross-section, the head slopes upwards from the snout and then back downwards into the neck. The snout terminates in a flat edge and has a circular knop projecting from its centre, it is decorated by seven transverse grooves. Behind these grooves there are two slightly protruding longditudinal oval-shaped eyes, 15mm in length on eit…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10442
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy incomplete unidentified object, it would have originally have been circular in shape but is now worn and measures 32mm by 27mm, it is flat and 2mm thick. Near to the edge of the mount there is a semi-circular perforation, suggesting that a hole was possibly bored here at a later time, so that the object could be suspended. The front face is very corroded and worn but some decoration survives. The design has been worked in bronze and consists of two back-to-back spirals, each with four strands surviving, the arms of these spirals meet where the spirals begin. Further lin…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TRIMLEY ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9877
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object. It consists of a rectangular shaped part, 15mm in length and 10mm in width, which tapers abruptly into another rectangular part which projects from the first at right angles and is 8mm in length and 7mm in width. The object is flat and there is gilding on the front face, there is a longditudinal groove inbetween the two rectangular sections. The smaller rectangle is further decorated by two square knops, which are opposite each other and near the edge of the end which is attached to the larger rectangle, these knops may represent eyes, …
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9387
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy fragment of what may be a late Anglo-Saxon stirrup-strap mount with a surviving width of 25mm and length of 23mm. It has a triangular-shaped end and beneath this the sides are parallel. On one side there is the start of open-work decoration which is oval-shaped. It is worn and due to its fragmentary nature it is not possible to assign it a Williams type and class.
Created on: Monday 14th October 2002
Last updated: Saturday 1st June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.