Record ID: SF-02BFD8
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early Anglo-Saxon polychrome glass bead. This bead is fairly large and is circular in shape, it measures 30mm in diameter, is 9.4mm thick and has a central circular perforation which measures 7mm in diameter. The glass is black in colour and has yellow glass inclusions. Around the centre of the edge of this bead there is faint circumferencial zig-zag trail. Dr. Birte Brugmann has examined this bead and believes as a circumferencial trail is present it is most likely to be late Roman or early Anglo-Saxon, dating to the 5th or 6th century (Brugmann personal comm. 9/2003). …
Created on: Thursday 11th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9829
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A circular bead probably made of glass, 19mm in diameter and 6mm thick. This bead is dark red in colour and has a circular hole through its centre which is slightly larger at one end than the other. This bead is likely to be Anglo-Saxon in date especially as it was found in association with other Anglo-Saxon objects.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7884
Object type: BEAD
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Globular bead made from semi-translucent light blue glass. The bead has been made by winding glass around a core, and there are some imperfections in the surface. It measures 9.5 mm in diameter and 7.5 to 8 mm tall; the perforation is 3 mm in diameter. Small glass beads like this are hard to date; it could be anything from Iron Age to modern.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7797
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small glass fragment, 3 mm thick and curved in two planes; therefore part of a globular rather than a cylindrical vessel. The basic colour is a translucent dusty pale pinkish-purple, within which are narrow oblique white strands. Inlaid onto the surface are three opaque white stripes which taper from 2 mm to 1 mm wide. Hugh Willmott has seen a scan and has identified it as Venetian and early to mid 16th century, probably part of the lower body of a stemmed goblet. These goblets are usually in colourless or more infrequently in blue, both with opaque white stripes, so the pinkish tin…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7458
Object type: WINDOW GLASS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Squarish fragment of window glass, just under 2 mm thick. The surface is lost and the glass is iridescent on both faces. Although the glass is not post-medieval, it is hard to put a precise date on it; it is probably either Roman or medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6940
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Button made from pale yellow glass, plano-convex in shape, 16 mm in diameter and 9 mm thick. The spiral marks on the back and, less obviously, on the front show that it was made by winding molten glass into a blob. In the centre of the back are two stubs of copper-alloy wire - the remains of a loop around which the glass was wound. Glass buttons are known from medieval contexts, but tend to be a good deal smaller than this one (see, for example, the Winchester finds - Biddle 1990). The buttons from 18th- and 19th-century contexts in America do not include glass buttons of this form…
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HARTEST', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6628
Object type: BEAD
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bright blue bead made of wound semi-translucent glass, 7 mm in diameter and 6 mm long (measured along the perforation). The perforation is 3 mm in diameter. The bead is slightly irregular with its widest point being closer to one end than the other. The surface has a lustrous appearance which may be iridescence (caused by the decay of the glass) or which may have been deliberately made. The lustre continues over a small chip near one end of the perforation. Dating a small monochrome bead is very difficult; it could be Roman or Anglo-Saxon, or could be relatively modern.
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6306
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Glass bead, 22 mm long (parallel to perforation) and 12 mm in diameter, with a perforation tapering from 5 mm in diameter at one end to 2.5 mm in diameter at the other. This polychrome bead is made from red-brown, greenish yellow and dark green opaque glass, with tiny flecks of bright acid yellow. The core of the bead is red-brown, and two red-brown bands divide it transversely into three; the overlapping ends of these bands can clearly be seen. In the three zones is a marbled abstract pattern predominantly of greenish yellow, with thin stripes of dark green and dots and stripes of…
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6275
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pale blue semi-translucent glass bead, made by winding the molten glass around a core. The bead is 7.5 mm long (parallel to the perforation) and 10.5 mm in diameter; the sides are unevenly curved to make a barrel shape. The perforation is 4 mm in diameter. Small monochrome glass beads are difficult to date; this one is unlikely to be medieval but may be Roman or Anglo-Saxon, and perhaps is most likely to be 7th or early 8th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CLOPTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5105
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rim from a shallow dish made from tubes of dark green glass with a yellow coating, set into a background of similar dark green glass. The green glass is translucent and the yellow glass more opaque. The rim is slightly turned out and the grinding lines show that the dish was cast, not blown. This is a rare kind of glass and probably an import from Italy.
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2001
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.