Record ID: SF2632
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Openwork copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount; central naked male human figure; bald head with moustache, beard and almond-shaped eyes; arms and legs slightly apart with his feet facing the viewer. Around the man's waist is an M-shaped element with a central rod-like projection which extends between the legs. Flanking the figure at the edge of the frame is a pair of ribbon-like serpents which entwine once around the figure's legs and whose open jaws gape either side of the man's head. The serpents' heads have bulging eyes and bumps behind their necks. The bodies of the serpents end in scr…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2000
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2646
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy disc brooch; cast circular plate; reverse has an elongated catch and pierced pin lug with traces of iron corrosion from a missing pin; the obverse is decorated with a series of compass-scribed concentric circles, a pair towards the mid-section of the plate and a group of 3 wider grooves towards the centre which is marked by a circular perforation through the thickness of the metal; 2 groups of punched-ring-and-dots (both positioned as though marking the corners of a square or rectangle) are located in the outer field and the field enclosed within the two groups of grooves…
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2670
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary small-long brooch; head-plate missing; arched bow, carinated at front, flat backed, central longitudinal groove along carination, corner facets with transverse grooves on mouldings above and below bow; rectangular field above foot decorated with transverse grooves and a pair of transverse mouldings each decorated with pairs of transverse lines; sub-triangular foot with slightly concave lateral edges, front surface decorated with outer border of crescentic punchmarks; damaged catch-plate on reverse.
Created on: Friday 9th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MICKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2671
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy pin; polyhedral 'facetted' head with circular holes drilled or punched into each face; pair of concentric grooves at top of pin shaft which is of circular section; slight swelling in shaft towards tip; shaft bent out of alignment.
Created on: Friday 9th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MICKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2705
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian series. Flat circular plate, damaged and severely corroded; stub of both pin-lug and catch-plate on reverse; decoration on front cast in relief, consists of a central concave-sided cross with central circular recess; the four cross arms degenerate into a continuos double-contoured ring-chain interlace pattern around the periphery of the plate; this example which stylistically represents an Anglo-Scandinavian version of the Viking Borre style has several East Anglian parallels, cf. BUR 023, published in SIAH 1995
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2000
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE THURLOW', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2709
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end; cast sub-triangular outline with a very stylised pointed zoomorphic terminal with faceted ears and eyes; main body plain apart from two transverse notches cut into metal at split-end; upper edge of split-end bent and damaged, pierced by single centrally placed rivet hole that may be secondary; front surface tinned; crude example of a 9th-century type of strap-end.
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2711
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy terminal or finial in the form of a beast's (dragon or serpent) head' ; behind the head the neck extends as a curving bar of metal of sub-circular section which tapers regularly towards the breakage point which indicates an oval cross section; the profiled head is finely executed with a pair of swept-back triangular ears, large bulging lentoid eyes and a large gaping mouth; between the jaws is a sub-triangular piercing, the corners of the mouth carry engraved scrolls which are also used to represent nostrils at the snout; a flat transverse section of metal which joins…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2799
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy scabbard chape of early Anglo-Saxon date, with engraved and punched detail on the front. The object consists of a sub-ovoid openwork plate, with a flat reverse and slightly curving upper surface; the upper or front is in the shape of two profiled curving bird (or possibly beast) heads separated by a thin tapering field which connects the chin of a human head placed at the top of the plate (between each of the bird heads) to a broken hook of D-shaped section at the bottom. There is a curved notch on the top left hand side. The human head has a bald curving brow, po…
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3078
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sub circular plate with short hook. Damaged around edge. Two holes for attachment near the edge opposite the hook. Decorated with an incised X, and with a cross of lightly incised rocker decoration; traces of rocker decoration also around the edge. 16.5mm long, plate 0.6mm thick.
Created on: Friday 4th August 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3396
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a cast copper-alloy harness link. The centre has a circular boss decorated with two concentric grooves, and two short side projections. The top and bottom are extended into two D-section arms which narrow at a step and are then broken (old breaks). Corroded to a rough matt green with brown rubbed patches, and rather worn. Surviving length 31 mm; maximum width 19 mm.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.