Record ID: SF-1AFC73
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an unidentified silver object or probably early medieval date. The fragment is rectangular in shape and section. One end is broken, while the other ends in a rounded terminal. The front of the object is divided into two cells with a horizontal (as pictured) cell wall, the cells following the shape of the object. These are inlaid with a red material, possibly glass or garnet, cut flat. The back of the object is plain and flat with no evidence of any attachment device.
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4371
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One arm from a pair of tweezers, broken at the loop (break neither particularly old nor particularly new). 3 mm wide at the break, it flares to 13.5 mm wide at the tip. The tip was originally turned in at right angles, but much of the flange thus created has broken away (again it is hard to tell the age of the breaks). The arm is decorated with a groove down either side (worn away at the wider end), and a longitudinal line of 6 ring-and-dot motifs ending in two further transversely set ring-and-dot motifs. Surviving length 49 mm, thickness 1 mm.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4610
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End of one flaring arm from a pair of tweezers, made of very thin metal. There is a gentle concave curve to the edges at the upper part of the fragment, then a convex curve. The edges are each outlined with ring-and-dot motifs - six with a fragment of a seventh at the bottom on each edge - and at the top is a single ring-and-dot which is presumably the start of a single row running up the arm. In the centre is a vertical row of four more ring-and-dots, with a single one filling the space at the bottom on either side. The lower edge is very slightly turned in before being broken off…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10835
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete set of copper-alloy tweezers, half of the loop and one arm of these tweezers survives. The loop and the arm are made from sheet copper-alloy, and measure 62mm in length, the arm is flaring and is 3mm in width below the loop and 7mm in width at its terminal. The outer face of the arm is decorated with punched decoration, consisting of two longitudianl boarders of circular indentations, and semi-circular designs, again consisting of circular indentaions, protruding inwards from the boarders. The inside face of the arm is undecorated. The ends of the arm turn inwards at an a…
Created on: Wednesday 12th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RATTLESDEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10440
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete pair of copper-alloy sheet tweezers. Through the loop of the tweezers there is a copper-alloy wire suspension loop, perhaps suggesting that these tweezers were originally part of a toiletry set, the other item(s) now lost. One of the arms of the tweezers is complete and measures 58mm in length, it is 5mm in width at the loop and flares out to 13mm in width at its terminal. Traces of decoration consisting of an incised boarder line near to the edges of the arm can be seen. The end of this arm turns in at a 90 degree angle. The other arm is incomplete due to an old bre…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TRIMLEY ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E97375
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete pair of cast copper-alloy tweezers in very good condition, measuring 71.4mm in total length. The loop has a longitudinal groove across it. Each of the arms flares towards its terminal, with an original width of 4.7mm increasing to 10.1mm at the flaring terminals. The ends of both of the arms are bent inwards at about a 45 degree angle. Both of the arms have decoration based on panels with bevelled edges. From the top of the arms down, the first two small panels have three transverse grooves across them, there is then a longer plain panel with more extensive bevelled edg…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E98356
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete pair of copper-alloy tweezers in very good condition, measuring 50.1mm in length. These tweezers have a loop and two complete arms. There is a transverse groove where the loop joins the arms. The arms are plain and undecorated they flare very slightly towards their terminals, with an original width of 6.3mm and a terminal width of 7.2mm. The ends of the arms curve inwards at about a 90 degree angle. These tweezers are similar to a pair found in an early Anglo-Saxon inhumation in Chantham Lines, Kent (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 222-224, no 38.11), due to this parall…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E9A482
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete pair of worn copper-alloy tweezers hanging from a circular copper-alloy suspension ring. This suspension ring has a split, which has probably been squeezed shut to form the ring. It measures 13mm in external diameter and 8.8mm in internal diameter. The top loop of the tweezers survives, a fragment of one arm and nearly all of the other. The almost complete arm measures 44.3mm in length and is flaring slightly towards its missing terminal, it measures 4.8mm beneath the loop and 6.2mm at its incomplete terminal end. The front face of this arm is decorated with two lo…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10077
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy tweezers with expanded arms which are sharply inturned at the terminals. The head is thickened and round in section (diam 2mm) and there is a slight rounded lip above a small transverse rib where the arm joins the head. The arms are undecorated except for slight single incised lines along the margins. Length 44mm, jaw width 11mm. Type as MacGregor & Bollick no.38.3
Created on: Monday 6th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRAISEWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7126
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End of one arm from a pair of copper-alloy tweezers, now bent and corroded. The arm flares from about 4 mm at the upper break to about 14 mm at the lower end, which is now a little bent. Although this lower end is not certainly broken, it is missing its turned-in tip. The arm is decorated on one face with engraved border lines running down each side. Within these is a longitudinal line of ring-and-dot motifs, which run down to a bend which has removed the surface along with any decoration. Below this bend is a transverse row of five ring-and-dot motifs with the central one slightly…
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.