Record ID: SF6604
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thick flat circular copper-alloy weight, 20 mm in diameter and 7 mm thick. A thick brown surface patina is occasionally broken to show bright green corrosion beneath. There are purposeful markings on both faces, consisting of a variety of short straight grooves and scratches set at a variety of angles, which are hard to interpret. It weighs 17.02g (0.6 avoirdupois oz, 0.56 troy oz, 10.94 dwt, 262.6 grains). Although it is not obviously of any particular date, odd copper-alloy weights can be found in the Viking period, and so it has been tentatively dated to then.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-10BC84
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon weight. This weight is of the type known as polyhedral or cubo-octahedral, and is cube-shaped with its corners cut off. It measures 8mm by 8mm in size. Every face of the weight has two parallel rows of three ring-and-dot indentations and a border of small straight incisions. This weight is 3.85g, which is unusual as the Viking weight system is usually between 24g and 26.6g, however it could possibly be a one sixth weight. These weights date from the mid 9th to mid 10th century and are common in Scandinavia.
Created on: Friday 25th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'herringswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E6A847
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo Saxon copper alloy bucket mount, probably a rim mount and of Jean Cook type A3, that is bifurcated with animal head terminals (Cook, 2004, 37). Such buckets were mainly in use in the 6th century, buckets with bifurcated mounts are most common in the 'Anglican' North-east. This bucket mount has a central rectangular vertical shaft with an upper terminal which narrows and curves backwards , presumably to fit over the upper rim of the bucket. This upper curved edge has vertical grooves along its edge. Below this terminal and at the other end there are two circular rivet …
Created on: Monday 14th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0C6961
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete very unusual probable copper alloy mount, 27mm in length and 11mm in width. This mount is shaped like a bird in profile looking left. It has an oval body which is decorated on its front with several concentric oval grooves forming the shape of a wing. Two feet project from the centre of the underside of the body and have a longitudinal groove through the centre. The head is large with a protruding circular eye, 5mm in diameter. The beak curves downwards. The back face is flat and undecorated, with no sign of how this probable mount was attached. This mount is reminiscent…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2003
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pettistree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CF4DA4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast circular copper alloy escutcheon from a hanging bowl of sixth- or seventh-century date. The disc, which is convex on the ornamented face, is 50mm in diameter and 2mm in thickness, but domed or dished to an overall depth of 6.5mm. The central underside shows a scar of corrosion product apparently corresponding to a solder by which it was attached to the underside of the vessel. The upper side is cast in relief showing recessed fields around a pattern reserved in bronze, the fields still being partly filled with enamel in which a red colour is still visible. The design consists of …
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9336
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy hanging bowl - the fittings plus fragments of the bowl, which was probably complete or nearly so when found. The group comprises: 3 rings, 3 escutcheons with integral hooks, one with attached vessel wall (two other fragments of vessel wall can be associated with the escutcheons); one ompholos (pushed in) base; 8 rim fragments and two other tiny vessel fragments. The circular escutcheons are openwork, with four devolved pelta shapes cut out on the diagonals, leaving a central cross shape. The backs are slightly concave, the fronts more strongly convex, so that the disc thi…
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2002
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9288
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy mount or escutcheon with a single hole, diam 2.5mm, roughly pierced through one corner The piece is three sided, each side being an arc. The front is decorate all over with excised circles in spirals centred on each corner. The circles contain millefiori enamel consisting of 0.5mm squares in white and dark grey arranged as a checkerboard. There are further traces of white (?) enamel in parts of the spirals and around the central triangle. It is very slightly curved to give a slightly concave back - it may be intended to be flat.The back is smooth, with slight traces of a …
Created on: Monday 23rd September 2002
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TRIMLEY ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8450
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded copper-alloy strip, between 17 and 19 mm wide, decorated along either long edge with an engraved line, outside which is a line of small stamped annulets. It is broken at both ends, and at one end a large iron rivet survives to a length of 6.5 mm. A strip decorated with stamps down either side is characteristic of early Anglo-Saxon bucket mounts, but the patina is unusual for one of these. Most of the present surface is a dark purple colour, but there are small patches of green overlying this and around the rivet there is a brown surface, partly rust, which appears to …
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7577
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Chunky mount, probably from a vessel, made from silvered and gilded copper alloy. It consists of a sub-rectangular plate and a hook that might have fitted over the vessel's rim; both curve down their long axis to fit around a globular vessel wall, and both combine to form a stylised animal. The plate is 20 mm wide at most, and 23 mm long. It has rounded corners and a slightly concave curve to the long sides. It is decorated with slightly angular symmetrical triple-strand interlace around four circular perforations; the two furthest away from the animal's head may have been function…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2387
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary cast copper alloy object; consists of a fragmentary bar of sub-triangular section which curves slightly in profile; the upper surface of the bar terminates in a stylised moulded animal head seen from above with deeply facetted eyes and a sub-triangular snout; the metal beyond the animal head expands into a flat circular plate, pierced centrally with an iron pin or rivet, of which only the central shank survives; corrosion from this pin has spread to cover much of the reverse of the plate; the front surface is also heavily corroded possibly with the remains of a vitreous su…
Created on: Friday 5th May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.