Record ID: SF-9203D5
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete cast probable silver early medieval or Viking Age ingot, roughly cylindrical in shape with slightly flaring terminals. The ingot appears to have been worked with tiny hammer marks on its surfaces giving it a faceted appearance. Dimensions: 31.62mm in length and 11.71mm in width, 10.68mm in thickness, 19.7g in weight. Discussion: This probable ingot is of a slightly unusual form, they more normally have a sub-rectangular section. Simple cast ingots can be difficult to date but are often found in Viking Age hoards, although may have been used at other times t…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-92C643
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver middle Anglo-Saxon pin, missing the pointed tip of its shaft due to old breaks. This pin has a spherical head decorated with a series of curving radiating grooves; it is 'wrythen-headed.' Beneath the head there are two circumferential grooves forming a collar. The shaft is circular in cross-section. Dimensions: The head has a diameter of 5.71mm, shaft is a maximum of 1.97mm in diameter and the total surviving length is 27.44mm. It weighs 1.345g. Discussion: Due to the nature of these pins this item falls into either the the Roman or Early-Mediev…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0C2A17
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold Anglo-Saxon preliminary phase primary sceatta of the runic Pada type (series Pa IA), c.655-680 AD. Metcalf, 1993: pp. 75-76; North, 1980: no. 151.
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D872A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver penny of Eadmund, King of East Anglia, c.855-870 AD. This coin is likely to be a continuation of a previous hoard of silver Eadmund pennies recorded through the Treasure Act as 2004 T115 (SF-077A54, SF-076841, SF-D99E44), 2008 T138 (SF-E1C3B5), 2010 T720 ( SF-AAFFB2) and (SF-C21281). This record is an administrative error duplicate of SF-C21281. This will be resolved shortly.
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 19th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-72DED5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon pin. The head is polyhedral, a cuboid with the corners cut off. It is decorated with ring and dot motifs and the upper face has an incised cross. The shaft is bent and may be incomplete; it has a circular cross-section. The head measures 8.38mm in width and 5.59mm in thickness, the shaft is 1.73mm in width and the pin is 31.35mm in total length. Compare NARC-772F63, which also has a saltire engraved on the top.
Created on: Monday 4th February 2008
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C421D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early medieval sceat of Series BIa/c, c.695-700. Current incompleteness appears due to old breaks,
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6A9565
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt fragment of a footplate of a square headed brooch. The fragment is incomplete at its top and bottom edges, where the rest of the footplate would have continued originally, due to old breaks, which are now worn. The fragment is roughly lozenge shaped and the front face decorated with an intricate chip carved design consisting of a central lozenge, two opposing terminals of which are complete and rounded in shape. There is a quatrefoil with spiral terminals within the lozenge shape and surrounding the lozenge there are rope-like or plaited motifs. The back face appears und…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetheringsett cum Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BC6AD3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
a late Early Medieval Ringerike-style animal head stirrup terminal. The head is circular with a crest, and consists mostly of an openwork circular 'eye' 9.45mm in diameter, with a marked brow and nose. Grooves on either side help to emphasise the nose. There is a mane forming a crest like that of a cockerel, with four decorative grooved lines running from the head to the crest edges. The back of the head/neck is flat and rectangular. The 'snout' is set at right angles to the neck and extends for 31.8 mm from the neck edge. It is hollow and U-shaped with its edges folded round and beco…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2008
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kedington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0646A8
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An openwork circular gold pendant. It is made from four concentric rings of beaded wire, 0.5mm thick, joined to form a 3mm wide band. A suspension loop of sheet gold has one end attached between the outer two rings, folded over to form a 3mm high loop and is joined to the other face at the same point but less securely. The loop has three longitudinal ribs. The outer edge of the pendant is worn on both sides of the loop and around one side of the pendant. The main body is slightly bent. The diameter of the pendant is 11mm and of the central opening 5mm, the height including the suspens…
Created on: Friday 18th July 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South East Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-869D56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver pin, formed from a 1.7mm diameter wire which tapers to a broken point at one end. The head is coiled twice and then flattened at the front to form a 3.2mm wide strip, which survives as 8mm long but might originally have been longer - it is not clear whether this is an abraded break or a true end, though the taper in profile suggests this is the original form. The main shaft has some small bends but was probably originally straight. Brooch pin Silver pin from a late Saxon ninth century disc brooch. Slightly warped and with minor cracking visible under magnification, but ot…
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.