Record ID: SF-464304
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (middle Anglo-Saxon) disc or 'cogwheel' brooch. The brooch has a flat circular plate with openwork and moulded decoration. This consists of a central cross with a domed lozenge in its centre and short arms, each expanding into two opposing lobes terminating at the edge of a surrounding circle. This circle has a central groove and rectangular crenellations around its circumference. On the back face of the plate to one side is a single pin lug covered with heavy iron corrosion - all that remains of the pin. On the opposite side is a small hooked…
Created on: Monday 29th February 2016
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wangford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-00A81C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date, probably a cruciform brooch. It is missing the sides of the head and most of the foot due to old breaks. The headplate is square with vertical grooves to each side which probably marked the junction between central panel and wings, but any wings and both side edges are now absent. At the top is an integrally cast full-round knob, with wide but shallow base, narrow waist, and worn globular terminal. On the reverse of the head are the remains of a single pin lug that has extensive iron corrosion where the spring and pin would h…
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1623C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle frame of probable later Early-Medieval date. It is D-shaped in form and cross-section, with narrowed bar that is oval in cross section and missing its pin due to old breaks. The expanded outer edge has extensive moulded decoration on its front face. This comprises what appears to be stylised zoomorphic motifs in the Urnes style formed from possible creatures with heads gripping each end of the bar, small scroll motifs on the sides of the frame perhaps indicative of ears. The remainder of the outer edge seems to depict the entwined bodies of the creatures, with mu…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5CE2A2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy object of Early Anglo-Saxon date, possibly a strap or belt fitting. Both ends are incompete due to old breaks. At one (attachment?) end there are the remains of three evenly spaced oval shaped lugs. The central of these three lugs survives intact and has a single oval aperture that demonstrates signs of use wear, the lugs to either side missing their outer edges due to old breaks. The front face of the plate is deeply recessed, creating prominent raised borders along the attachment(?) end and both sides, the border at the terminal(?) end curving to a central…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-ED5D66
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary gilded silver artefact, probably part of a pinhead. The fragment is rectangular in shape with one tapering end; both terminals are now missing. The front face is decorated with a gilded interlace design in a central panel. The design consists of two conjoined circles with crosses within them and, beneath these where the object narrows, an adjoining spiral-like motif. The panel has a plain border decorated with tiny circular indentations. The back face is flat and undecorated with some rough scratches.
Created on: Monday 15th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-67DF01
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch, with an unusual separate catch-plate. Only the bow and the upper part of the foot survive. The bow is short, D-shaped in cross-section and highly curved in profile with faceted corners. The front is decorated with a broad groove down the centre flanked by a single narrower groove to either side, creating the effect of a pair of ridges. Outside the narrow groove on each half of the bow is a longitudinal line of punched annulets. At either end of the bow is a flat rectangular area decorated with a single transverse groove acr…
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A77BBC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch. It is missing the pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch has a curved bow that is triangular in cross-section with flat back and faceted front face. At each end are expanded, flattened terminals. One (the head) is rectangular in form with flat back face and faceted front face, and with a transverse rib or ridge at the terminal end. On the back face of this terminal is an integrally cast pin lug that is rectangular in form with a small circular aperture and rectangular projections at each …
Created on: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3ABEB9
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold object comprising a hollow dome with a projecting socket and separately-soldered back-plate. The dome is decorated all over its upper surface with filigree and granulation. In the centre is a raised circular setting comprising a strip of gold surrounded by a beaded wire collar, and set with a small blue glass cabochon. Around this is a lozenge-shaped field delimited by a single strand of gold beaded wire, which overall gives a cruciform effect. The outer terminal of each cross arm is marked with a cluster of pellets. The lozengiform field is filled with granulation, or…
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E3AADB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), Expanding Cross type, c.AD1050-1053 , moneyer: Eastmund, mint: Thetford (North 820). Ref: North, 1980, 141.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2014
Last updated: Sunday 5th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

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.