Record ID: SF7260
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead plaque, 12.5 mm square and 3 mm thick, decorated on one face with an animal in profile towards the left. The head is turned to face the observer and there is a double-forked tail curling up over the back. This might be a lion passant guardant, or something similar to the cat-like animals sometimes found on buckle plates (e.g. Norwich Households no. 135). It weighs 5.16g, which is equivalent to 79.8 grains.
Created on: Monday 29th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8D3766
Object type: WEAVING IMPLEMENT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete bone probable weaving implement. It is 95.96mm in length, c10.99mm in width and 6.94mm thick. Both terminals are rounded/blunt and the whole object has been polished smooth. The slightly wider rounded end (11.36mm in width) has a central circular perforation, measuring 4.92mm in diameter. The terminal end tapers slightly and is 8.21mm in width at its tip. No exact parallel could be found for this probable weaving implement, however, it could date from the Anglo-Saxon period onwards. It is most likely to have been used for weaving owing to its blunt rounded terminal.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witnesham', 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: SF223
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy vessel fitting in the form of a stylised bull's head incorporating a slot and right-angled flange designed to be fitted to a vessel rim. The neck extends in a long curving bow-like section behind the head, it is decorated on its front surface with two parallel grooves; the bow terminates in a rounded flange also for attachment. Stylistically the closest parallels come in the form of Late Iron-Age fire-stands such as that from Baldock, Herts.
Created on: Thursday 30th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HENLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF305
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery vessel; fine, buff clay, well fired; small base; contoured body with expanded waist, flared at upper section below breakage which suggests the body widens again beyond this point; unusual form without close parallel.
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 1999
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALDRINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4073
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible repair patch from a cooking vessel, consisting of a thin rectangular sheet of copper alloy measuring c. 45 x 36 mm. The sheet has irregular, perhaps torn or broken, edges and three irregularly set 5 mm diameter rivet holes, two of which contain solid copper-alloy rivets. One edge is a little neater and appears to have an extra piece of thin copper-alloy sheet adhering, perhaps bent over the edge, with some longitudinal ?decoration. The sheet is now bent in two.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BATTISFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4375
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rim from a cast copper-alloy vessel. The exterior is slightly rougher than the interior but there is no surviving sooting.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4470
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete miniature copper-alloy vessel with tall straight neck, handles, and bulbous body. The neck is cylindrical and is 15 mm diameter at the straight rim. One edge is torn away, together with one handle, but the other handle is a smoothly curving vertical D shape with the top springing from the rim. Inside the neck is a bubbly green concretion which narrows but does not block the mouth. The neck smoothly curves out to a bulbous body, and the base is missing (fresh breaks). Surviving height 40 mm, maximum diameter 29 mm. These flasks are not common, but two are known from Nor…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HOLBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4496
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rounded handle lug from a cast copper-alloy cauldron (large cooking pot). One end survives with a fragment of vessel wall, but there is a break just beyond the rounded bend. The lug is oval in section, measuring 10 x 14 mm, and the fragment is 55 mm long. There are some dark patches which may be the remains of sooting.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4559
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Roman glass vessel. The glass is pale blue and perfectly translucent, with some small bubbles resulting from the blowing process. The fragment is 3 mm thick and straight, not curved, indicating that it comes from a 'prismatic' (square or rectangular) vessel. All the edges are broken.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK OTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.