Record ID: SF6617
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small strap-end made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One end is 7 mm wide and cut straight across, and here the two pieces are held together by a single copper-alloy rivet. Both sheets then flare slightly to 8 mm wide, and one is decorated with a longitudinal row of four ring-and-dot motifs. The end is then cut into three facets, two at an angle and the central one straight across. The decorated sheet has three small nicks in the edges of the two side facets. Although there is no obvious means of joining the two sheets at this end, it is possible that they could have been so…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SF6577
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozengiform mount, perhaps from a book, made of gilded copper alloy and decorated with chip-carved interlace. In the centre is a hole, which has been pushed through from front to back through the centre of a circular cell which may once have held a setting. Outside the wall of this cell are four cells of interlace, each containing a simple knot of two loops. These are contained within a double-strand circular border and separated by a double-strand cross; the arms of the cross pass alternately under and over the circular border. They then extend to an outer double-strand border runnin…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6495
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 20th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6494
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver cut halfpenny of Cnut, Pointed Helmet issue.
Created on: Friday 20th July 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6475
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Side knob from a cruciform brooch, made of solid copper alloy. It is U-shaped, with one rounded and one straight end, and half-round (but tending to biconvex) in cross-section with a low rounded undecorated reverse and a more steeply rounded front. The front is decorated with a central waist, below which there are two transverse grooves before the straight end; the grooves are worn away in the centre. The straight edge has a groove cut into it for attachment to the headplate, and one end of the iron pin bar which passes right through the knob. Above the central waist is a single t…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2001
Last updated: Friday 5th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6474
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Extremely poorly cast copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B12, which is possibly mis-cast and certainly unfinished. It has the usual bar connecting three sub-rectangular lobes, with the central lobe being larger to accommodate a hook on the underside. None of the usual transverse decoration is visible on the bar; some lumps along the middle form a kind of longitudinal ridge. One of the terminal lobes is comparatively neat and well formed, with a raised square in line with the bar, and a flatter lug pierced for sewing on the rear edge, which slopes slightly dow…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6410
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head and bow from a copper-alloy long brooch, probably a small-long but possibly a cruciform brooch. The headplate is rectangular, 25.5 x 18 mm, and although it does not have the top or side knobs characteristic of the cruciform brooch it does have a very faint hint of a flat central panel and very slightly bevelled side wings. There is no apparent stamping or any other kind of decoration, but the surface is very corroded making certainty impossible. On the reverse of the head is a single broken pin bar lug. The headplate is rather lumpy, especially in the left-hand upper corner, …
Created on: Friday 13th July 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6451
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, which although unusual fits best into Williams's Class A, Type 1. It is almost rectangular, flaring very slightly from 33.5 mm wide at the base to 35 mm at the top, and at least 37 mm long. It has a full-width but very short flange turned under at a gentle angle, and two rivet holes above the base. The top edge has two large incurved cut-outs, and between this the apex is broken off. It has engraved decoration which is now unclear; there is a single-line border, and two back-to-back curves in the centre each made up of a double line; this is all that …
Created on: Friday 13th July 2001
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', 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: SF6134
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver hooked tag with circular plate and missing hook. The plate is 12 mm in diameter, undecorated, and has two sewing holes. A small stub of the hook survives. Such a small simple hooked tag may date from any time from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. (Subsequent note: this is almost certainly the same item as that published without illustration in the Treasure Act Annual Report 2001, no. 58, p. 41 (Treasure number M&ME 413). It was found upon XRF analysis to be a copper, lead and tin alloy and therefore not to be Treasure).
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6135
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin, missing the tip of its shaft. The head is a flattened bicone in shape, convex above and conical below, tapering down to a collar at the top of the shaft. The shaft is circular in cross-section. The proportions are slender; the head is 6 mm in diameter and the shaft is only just over 1 mm in diameter. Total surviving length 30 mm.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6136
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an unusual brooch, probably a middle or late Anglo-Saxon rectangular plate brooch and probably made of silver. It consists of a thin plate which flares slightly, with concave sides, from a break to an original squared-off end. The corners at this end are cut off obliquely. It has relief decoration, now perhaps worn. In the centre are two longitudinal raised bands with fine oblique ribbing. Surrounding these, on the three original sides, is a broader and higher raised band with a wide central groove. At the bottom is a wide transverse groove with a raised beaded line in the…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6006
Object type: BOX
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount, long and narrow. One end is broken and the other has an animal-head terminal. The animal-head terminal is in 9th-century style, with a brow and nose in one piece and a bulbous eye to either side of the concave-sided nose. Each eye has a central dot. In the middle of the brow is a rivet hole blocked with copper-alloy corrosion; this runs through the thickest part of the mount, nearly 6 mm thick. Behind the brow of the head is a transverse ridge with a short central groove crossing it. Behind this is the central panel of the mount, which tapers in thickness away …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHOTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5810
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy disc brooch with relief decoration. Around the edge is a beaded rim with 28 or 29 small bosses. Inside this is a quadruped with all four legs shown, with the head facing backwards over the back and the tail bent forward to meet it. Each foot has three toes and the neck has zigzag edge representing a mane. The head has open jaws and a circular eye. On the reverse are two transverse lugs. One D-shaped one is perforated and has a slot cut to form the catchplate; the edge of the catchplate has been bent outwards. The other lug is H-shaped and formed the pin lug. There is some…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK DUNWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5808
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5708
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small flat copper-alloy disc brooch with loose interlace design. In the centre is a raised circle with sunken centre, within a raised lozenge with incurved sides. A small raised triangle fills the space in each point of the lozenge, and each point is then extended into a double-strand ribbon which is loosely knotted on itself. There is a raised border around the rim. On the reverse are two pierced D-shaped lugs, one forming a transverse pin lug and the other cut through to make a catchplate. The pin lug retains the remains of the loop of an iron pin. Now rather worn, the brooch has a …
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5709
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head and bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The headplate is rectangular, 29 x 21 mm, with a double engraved line running the full length of three sides to form a border with outlined corners. Within this border is an inner border of double-crescent stamps. Neither border appears to extend along the lower edge, but this is very heavily corroded. On the reverse is some extremely thick copper-alloy corrosion, and iron corrosion from a pin bar and spring which almost obscures a single central pin bar lug. The bow extends from the lower edge of the headplate, and also has a lo…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5710
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of very large copper-alloy openwork disc brooch. Originally c. 60-65 mm in diameter, a little over a quarter survives. Around the outside is a border of worn stamps which were probably originally a dot between two oblique lines or a dot in triangle. The cut-outs were originally around a swastika pattern; only the right-angled end of one arm survives. On the reverse of this arm is a catchplate. One break is extremely fresh, and the others are very slightly worn. A similar, but smaller, example is shown in Mac Gregor and Bolick (1993) no. 5.1.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5711
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy hooked tag with sub-circular plate, two broken loops and a large hook. The plate is decorated with two engraved circles with fine radiating grooves both between the circles and within the inner circle. The engraving is not done particularly neatly. At the top of the plate are two projecting pierced lugs, both now broken; the breaks seem quite fresh but the metal is extremely thin here and it is hard to be certain. At the bottom is a much thicker hook, which tapers downwards before bending under to form the hook. Anglo-Saxon, probably middle or late.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5713
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Finger-ring made from copper-alloy sheet. The wide bezel flares gently and is slightly domed; it is decorated with unevenly set ring-and-dot motifs. Although there is a lot of corrosion, it appears from the way that the decoration is obscured towards the tapering ends that the sheet was decorated first, and made into a ring subsequently. The tapered ends are bent, showing that they were once twisted around each other, but are now incomplete. Very dark patina with spots of brighter green corrosion. Surviving width at centre of bezel 9 mm; dimensions of the ring as bent when held fl…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5716
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Finger-ring made from copper-alloy sheet. The bezel is flat and lozengiform, and is decorated with small, closely set ring-and-dot motifs. The narrow ends would originally probably have twisted around each other, but are now missing. Rough light brown patina. Surviving width at centre of bezel 12.5 mm; dimensions of the ring as bent when held flat, 30 x 17 mm. Anglo-Scandinavian, 9th to 11th century.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5717
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy slide key from a tumbler lock, of Winchester type 2. The bow is lozengiform, with a little knop at the far end. The stem is very short, and is pierced at the tip. The bit is very long, and L-shaped; it has a rectangular perforation before two prongs project at right angles. The key would have been put into a long keyhole and the hollow tip engaged onto a pin projecting from the bolt. The key would then have been turned so that the prongs would have passed through a hole in the bolt and pushed a spring out of the way. Then the key and the bolt would have been slid along…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5718
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a box. It has one rounded flattened pierced terminal, then a triangular-section part decorated with pairs of V-shaped nicks and two rounded depressions, possibly intended to resemble an animal's head. Below the brow of the possible animal head is a flattened part which is pierced - this and the terminal probably held fixing rivets. Below the rivet hole is a transverse ridge, and then the mount is D-shaped in section with a longitudinal slot dividing it into two arms. Each arm is decorated with more V-shaped nicks. These arms are then probably broken, b…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5741
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a sub-circular loop and a stem which runs down to a break. The loop has a bevelled edge and the off-centre perforation flares from the front to the reverse; the stem also has bevelled edges giving it a trapezoidal cross-section. It looks a little like an Anglo-Scandinavian bridle cheekpiece, but the stem is too slender at 5.5 mm wide and 3.5 mm thick. Dark grey patina, particularly on top of the loop where it looks as though it has been handled a good deal. The break is neither particularly old nor particularly fresh. Poss…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5673
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end, missing its zoomorphic terminal (worn break). The split end is damaged, with one rivet hole broken through on the front half and both on the rear half. Below each rivet hole is a curved groove, almost concentric with the rivet hole, and there is another similar curved groove in the centre below these. Below these three curved lines is a longitudinal groove running down the centre to the break. This divides a pair of back-to-back curved grooves at the top, above two long rectangular panels of decayed whitish material which must represent inlaid decoration. At th…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2001
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5569
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5570
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver sceat, Series X (wodan/ monster), probably minted in Ribe (Denmark).
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5471
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Enigmatic object made of cast copper alloy with a long, slightly flaring base, a central loop and a human-head terminal. The base is rectangular in section, 5 x 6 mm, with chamfered edges; it is 12 mm long and hollow, and perhaps served as a socket. The central loop sits on top of the base; its perforation runs from side to side and measures 3.5 mm internally. The loop is cracked through at the top, just under the chin of the human-head terminal. It is decorated on the reverse with three small, slightly asymmetrically set ring-and-dot motifs. The human-head terminal has simple decorat…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2001
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5435
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver penny of Aethelred II, Long cross type (N774) Minted in London by Leofnoth.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5436
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 9, with relief decoration of a human face. The loop at the top is broken (fairly worn break) but at the bottom a groove can be seen which ran around the loop and then extended at the bottom to form a V. Just below this are grooved eyebrows which turn up at the outer ends to form small projections. Below are large round eyes made up of a wide circular band around a small pellet, with a nose between which continues the ridge (though not the groove) of the eyebrows. There are some bands of simplified ?interlace either side of t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5409
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy sword pommel of 'cocked hat' type, rising from a rectangular base measuring 34 x 15 mm. At either end is a D-shaped lug pierced to take a rivet, one lug now broken. When looked at end-on, the pommel tapers smoothly with straight sides to a rounded top. When looked at side-on, the narrow faces are concave. The narrow faces are decorated with one narrow and two broad grooves which run across the bottom of the narrow face and down either side. Above these is a border of small circular stamps which runs all the way around each narrow face. The larger faces are more corro…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5370
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made of a lead alloy, with some silvery ?rubbed areas which may possibly be inlaid silver wires. Most of the object is made of very thin sheet, but across the ?top is a chunky lozenge- or pentagonal-section moulding with transverse ribbing on the flat upper face. The sheet then curves down away from this moulding. Running down the sheet perpendicular from the chunky moulding is a narrow moulding which appears to have some slight transverse grooving or ridging at the lower end. This moulding separates two incomplete spirals, or pairs of concentric circles, made fr…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5394
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small double-looped buckle frame, one loop rectangular and the other D-shaped. The rectangular loop has rounded edges, and the outer edge and one side edge are decorated with oblique ribbing. The other side edge is undecorated. There is a little moulding at either end of the bar, and the frame is slightly angled about the bar. The D-shaped loop has an almost lozengiform moulding at the outer edge; this is decorated with a V-shaped groove, made up of two strands on one arm but only one on the other. I am uncertain as to the date of this buckle. There are similar 17th-century examp…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5348
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Headplate from a small-long brooch, with slightly worn break at or just above the start of the bow. The headplate is basically rectangular, 33 mm wide and 24 mm in surviving length, with a U-shaped cut-out in the lower edge either side of the bow and a long thin rectangular cut-out at the upper corners (one now damaged). The sides each have two border grooves but the top edge appears to be undecorated (it may be incomplete). There are six equal-sized circular motifs on the headplate, arranged in two rows of three; the outer ones in the upper row are perforations, and the other four …
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5350
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Foot from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. Only the terminal survives, with an unworn break at the top. At the break, the fragment is 8.5 mm wide with a low D-shaped section, decorated with transverse grooves; one narrow, two wide and a second narrow. There is some wear in the centre of this area. Below, the foot is flatter and pelta-shaped (like a crescent with a central mushroom-like stalk) with bevelled edges around the upper curves; the lower curve has a border of punched crescents. Flat reverse. The patina is grey and quite shiny; perhaps the remains of a white-metal coatin…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5351
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy catch-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form C1, Fonaby type, now slightly bent. As with all C1 clasps, there is chip-carved relief decoration mainly consisting of an animal head at either end of the front edge with the long curving necks meeting in the centre. Each animal head has a round eye and a bird-of-prey-type beak curving right round to form a perforation. On top of the eye and the beak, forming either end of the catch-piece, are two squarish panels with a pointed element, perhaps an ear or a horn, behind; this forms the rear corner. Behind the headframe,…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5355
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated lead fragment. Sub-rectangular, two edges are broken and the other two are made from the curving neck and head of an animal. The neck is wide and decorated with a running spiral between two wide raised bands; a tiny dot eye is enclosed within a frame and below is a raised crescent. The head probably ended in a curving beak but this is now missing. It is just over a millimetre thick. John Hines has seen an image of the fragment, and agrees that it there are four possibilities. Most probably it is a fragment of a lead model used in the manufacture of a wrist-clasp. …
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5369
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end decorated with silver wire scrolls. The split end is shaped into two lobes, each with a small ?copper-alloy rivet. Below the split end, the strap-end tapers to a waist before flaring out again to form an elongated oval. About half of this oval is taken up with two longitudinally set nielloed panels which are inlaid with rather carelessly applied silver wire loops and scrolls. Niello is a silver sulphide, black when first made, but now just starting to mineralise to a slightly silvery colour. The rest of the strap-end consists of a large animal head, with oval ea…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 3rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5272
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small flimsy hooked tag made of copper alloy. The plate is circular and has two slightly asymmetrically set circular attachment holes near to the top edge. The plate is 10 mm wide and the only decoration is a white-metal coating on the front surface. At the bottom is a long hook; as this turns backwards only at right angles, it is probably either bent or incomplete. Total length 18 mm.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5271
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny copper-alloy clasp or catch, probably from a bag or box. It consists of a bar 2.5 mm wide, D-shaped in cross-section, decorated with unevenly spaced transverse grooves, with flattened circular terminals 4 mm across. One terminal is pierced, and probably revolved around a peg; the other is also pierced, but has a section of the circumference near the bar cut out to make a hook. This probably engaged with a second peg on the bag/box lid or body to fasten it. These objects are found occasionally in graves of the seventh or early eighth century AD but are exceptionally rare metal-dete…
Created on: Friday 20th April 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5245
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class B, Type 1, probably dating to the 9th century. The attachment end is split and rather unevenly made; one corner of the under half is missing. The two halves are held together by two copper-alloy rivets. The upper half has a small notch between the two rivet holes. The strap-end tapers from the split end, with the taper becoming more gentle after the split ends. There is decoration on the sides and upper surface but this is very worn; it appears to consist of four transverse grooves just before the split, then four more widely spaced transverse …
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5246
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three small copper-alloy strap loops still attached to a small copper-alloy ring. Each strap loop is made from a piece of circular-section bronze rod, bent into a loop, with the ends flattened and pierced to take two iron rivets each. There is a tiny split at the junction of one flattened end with its loop and this may show that the ends were made by folding a longer flattened part in half. The two best-preserved loops are each 7 mm wide and 17 mm long; the other is slightly bent out of shape, 8 mm wide and 18 mm long. The diameter of the rod used is nearly 2 mm and the flattened e…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5196
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold casing for a pyramidal scabbard mount in the form of a truncated pyramid, decorated with filigree zoomorphs on each face and a square-cut plate garnet at the apex. The casing is made from four sheets of gold, soldered edge to edge, with the joins on the display surface disguised by worn beaded filigree. Each of the four faces is ornamented with a single knotted snake-like zoomorph within a fine beaded filigree border. The zoomorphs are arranged in pairs and their bodies are made of triple-strand beaded filigree. The pairs are different in both form and execution, as if mad…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5189
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5190
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5102
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin with flattened biconical or globular head; the upper part of the head is a flattened hemisphere and the lower part is conical, and the junction between the two is rounded. Diameter of head 7 mm. The conical lower part of the head tapers down to a slight collar, and beneath this the shaft starts with an unusual 2 mm square section. Splits and seams can be seen running down two diagonally opposite angles of the shaft, showing that it was made by hammering rather than casting. The angles of the shaft become more rounded towards the tip, but the section never becomes t…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALSHAM LE WILLOWS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4978
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval base silver sceat of Series R, Metcalf variety 8 (c.710-35), probably minted in East Anglia.
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4864
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bow and upper part of foot from a copper-alloy long brooch, probably a cruciform. The bow is broken at the top (recent break) at the junction with the head. It begins with a flat panel which is decorated with a transverse groove above a pair of transverse grooves each with punched dots along them, with a beaded line in between. The dots have not been punched very accurately. Below this, the main part of the bow is 'facetted', i.e. D-shaped in section with an almost-flat reverse. There is a longitudinal line of dots down the centre of the bow. At the bottom of the bow is another f…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4865
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon buckle with oval frame and integral triangular plate. The frame is small yet chunky (externally 18.5 x 9, internally 12 x 4 mm) and not quite symmetrical, being narrower at one end than the other. It is circular in section with a slightly thicker outer edge. The junction between frame and plate is marked by a groove cut through by a circular pin hole. The plate is undecorated except for a bevelled edge, and is 10 mm wide at the junction with the frame. It ends at the apex in a domed oval lobe. On the reverse are two unpierced lugs each 5 mm long. One spr…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4858
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of head and bow of copper-alloy small-long brooch. The headplate is now sub-rectangular with rounded corners, but the edges are worn and may not be original. There appears to be no surviving decoration. On the reverse is a pin bar lug with corrosion from the iron pin bar and spring. To either side of the lug, the headplate has been bent causing stress and cracking to the metal; both corners on one side have consequently broken off (recent break). The headplate tapers into the bow, which is flat at the top with two transverse grooves. Below, the edges are bevelled and the bow …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4859
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Foot from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The break at the base of the bow occurs just above the catchplate, and is fairly recent. The foot begins with a long panel which tapers from 5 mm wide at the break to 4 mm in the centre. Although now very corroded, it appears to have bevelled edges and some transverse decoration. The terminal is flat and flares out to at least 7.5 mm wide; it is relatively uncorroded and is decorated at the top with two pairs of transverse grooves with edge nicks in between. Below this, the edges are bevelled and the corners are missing.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4860
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of the bow from a large copper-alloy brooch, probably a cruciform. A small stub of head or foot survives at one end, and then the bow begins with a flat panel. Beyond this, the bow is 'facetted' or curved in both planes, with a hollow reverse. Down the centre is a flat area, decorated with two longitudinal grooves; these are largely worn away and only visible as they emerge from the flat panel. The other end of the bow is missing; the break is neither very old nor very new. 20 mm wide.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4861
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pin from a buckle, of 'shield-on-tongue' type. The integral plate over the pin is actually shaped more like a violin, with a rounded end then a waist formed by two rounded cut-outs, then a rectangular lobe with a nick in each short projecting edge. The shaft of the pin projects from this last lobe and tapers slightly (not quite evenly and symmetrically) to a strongly downcurved tip which would have fitted around the outer edge of the buckle frame. On the underside of the rounded end of the plate are the remains of the loop which would have hinged the pin to the buckle frame. These …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4862
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it is basically rectangular with a thickened front edge which is decorated to imitate a separate bar, with alternating transverse narrow and broad grooves. Behind this is a longitudinal ridge, the edge of which is cut by three circular sewing holes. The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs forming four sub-rectangular projecting lobes. On the underside of the front edge is a 4 mm wide hook. Measures 30 x 12.5 mm. Wrist-clasps were used to fasten the cuffs of early Anglo-…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4863
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it was originally basically rectangular but is now very worn so that the corners are rounded. The front edge is thickened to imitate a separate bar, which although very worn has traces of broad transverse grooves. The edge of this bar is cut by three circular sewing holes; the clasp is broken across one of these (fairly fresh break). The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs (one incomplete) forming four very worn projecting lobes (one missing). On the underside of the …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4817
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy gusset plate, missing one lower corner but recognisably conforming to the usual pattern. Basically triangular, the two lower corners have birds' heads with blob eyes and long curly beaks, with a sewing hole slightly cutting the underside of the beaks. One corner has broken away across the sewing hole. The birds' necks curve up and inwards as raised undecorated bands, to meet at a central disc. Below this disc, at the base of the plate, the backs of the birds' heads are joined by a strut forming a circular hole (which was probably not used for sewing, as the slit…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MARTLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4805
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small supporting-arm brooch, probably of Perlberg type. The head has lost its spring and pin, and the pierced lugs which would have held them. It tapers sharply from the missing lugs to a junction with the bow, and is decorated with two horizontal grooves across the top. The bow tapers much more gently to a point just below the middle of the arch, and then flares out slightly. The junction with the head is decorated with a pair of triangular edge nicks above two transverse grooves. The bow is trapezoidal in section below this decoration, and measures 4.5 x 2 mm in section at its narro…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4742
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pinhead with inlaid silver scroll decoration. The pinhead is hollow and is made from thin sheet copper-alloy in the shape of a near-cube with the corners cut off. It is 16 mm tall, and the side faces measure 14 x 13 mm. Now very corroded, the cut-off faces and perhaps also the top lozengiform face appear to be undecorated. The four lozengiform faces around the sides, however, have raised borders and sunken centres, and in its sunken centre one face has the remains of a niello panel with two inlaid reversed-S silver wire scrolls. There are hints that the panel was outlined with a b…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4739
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cylindrical glass bead with rounded ends, made of semi-translucent pale aquamarine or turquoise glass. It is 14 mm long and 11 mm in diameter, with a 4 mm perforation. Dating this bead has proved difficult. Cylindrical shapes are not found among pre-Roman beads. No parallel can be found in M. Guido's Prehistoric and Romano-British Glass Beads (1978). Catherine Johns of the British Museum thinks it is not Roman. This leaves early Anglo-Saxon as the most likely option, but it is an unusual colour. Leslie Webster of the British Museum has seen it and has suggested that the unusual …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CULPHO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4659
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pin head and part of shaft. The head is of 'biconical with median band' shape, appears to be undecorated, and is 7-8 mm in diameter. There is no collar beneath the head; the shaft tapers from 3 mm diameter at the top to 2 mm diameter, bends and is then broken. The break extends up the middle of the shaft, suggesting that it was made in two pieces then hammered together. Dating of pins with no collar can be difficult as there is little difference between middle Anglo-Saxon and Roman examples, but the shape of the head and the construction of the shaft both suggest a middle Anglo-Sax…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4613
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HORRINGER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4608
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hooked tag made from a piece of thin copper-alloy sheet. It has a straight-cut top with a sewing hole in each corner, meaning that it must date to the Anglo-Saxon period. The other sides are curved down to a projecting tapering turned-under hook, which is relatively long (7 mm from bend to tip) for hooked tags of this period. The plate is corroded, but decoration of at least seven irregularly set ring-and-dot motifs can be seen; one is so close to a sewing hole that the dot has broken away into the hole. The dimensions (width 17 mm, plate length 16 mm, overall length 22 mm) are com…
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: 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: SF4481
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin flat copper-alloy harness mount, lozengiform at one end and with a long projection ending in a trefoil or fleur-de-lis terminal at the other. There is worn engraved decoration, perhaps originally inlaid. On the lozenge is a double-strand diagonal cross, each arm slightly expanded and with two transverse lines close to the crossing; the expanded ends each end in a slight rounding of the edge of the mount. The corners of the lozenge are also slightly rounded. The projection has border grooves interrupted by a pair of transverse grooves running from the border to the edge. The b…
Created on: Thursday 25th 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: SF4429
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified copper-alloy object with corroded iron core. The copper-alloy part consists of a hollow ?terminal with one rounded end, probably with a small perforation, and one straight-cut open end. The terminal has a narrow raised band running around the centre; above and below this are rings of alternately set triangular perforations, each perforation with its base towards the raised band. An iron core has blocked all the perforations with corrosion, and has in some places burst the copper alloy. The copper alloy is also very corroded - to a dark purple colour - but looks always …
Created on: Thursday 18th 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: SF4393
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a Hines Form B13 wrist-clasp, now bent in half, consisting of a rectangular plate with silvery solder and the scar from a missing longitudinal bar, tube or plate. To the front of the scar is a narrow slot, now broken through (old breaks), and to the rear are two circular holes for sewing the clasp to the sleeve. There is no decoration on the plate. Original length 20 mm, width 12 mm.
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: 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: SF4296
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4269
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small harness link, very worn and corroded and now incomplete. Both terminals are broken (old breaks worn to a point) but originally had oval perforations and sharp corners. The bar between the terminals has a rounded boss in the centre. The terminals are set slightly off-centre and the cheekpiece may not have been very well made. No surface survives. Surviving length 53 mm, maximum width of terminal 17 mm, minimum width of bar 5 mm, height of boss 9 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TRIMLEY ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4231
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat copper-alloy disc, a slightly irregular circle c. 36 mm in diameter and now slightly bent. Holes of varying shapes and sizes have been pushed through the disc from one face to the other - a central small irregularly shaped hole (c. 1 mm across), six similar holes around, ten similar holes in a third ring, then 13 more various holes around the outside. The outer ring contains a neat circular hole of 3 mm diameter and other holes of 2 mm and I mm across. The excess metal on the 'reverse' has been hammered down. The method of construction of the holes is similar to that on mediev…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4244
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of harness link of other item of equestrian equipment. Only part of one terminal survives, lozengiform externally and with a large oval perforation. Three of the corners have knobs and the object is broken just beyond the two side knobs. Both breaks are fairly old. The terminal measures 30 mm across, so the object may have been fairly large. Surviving length 21 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4181
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat copper-alloy disc brooch, now very worn and with much of the edge missing. It is decorated with a relief pattern in Borre style, with a raised central lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. The corners of the lozenge are extended to form double-strand interlace in the form of loose knots, each double strand ending in a blob. The groove dividing the strand into two has almost completely worn away. Despite the wear, this was clearly well-made; this type is mass-produced and can be very crude. On the reverse is a broken transverse pin bar lug, and a catchplate.
Created on: Sunday 10th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WANTISDEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4148
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of headplate from a fairly small example of a great square-headed brooch, neatly made of copper alloy but with no gilding or silvering, and now with a nice dark greyish-green patina. In the centre (to judge from the placing of the single pin bar lug on the reverse) is a sunken rectangular panel with a counter-relief double spiral, shaped like an S on its side. In the sunken field around the S is some white material. There is a raised border around the sunken field, decorated with double-crescent stamps. Below and to the right of this border (as you look at it) are fairly f…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4162
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small and rather crudely decorated silver sword pyramid. The base measures 13 x 12 mm and has the usual flat bar, 2 mm wide and running parallel to the shorter side of the pyramid. Inside the pyramid is some coppery corrosion. Each of the four faces has engraved geometric decoration within a single-line border, a different pattern on each face; the small square panel on the top has a saltire and no border. The engraved lines are narrow but appear to have contained a dark inlay, perhaps niello; they seem now to be rather worn. The pyramid is 6.5 mm tall. The use of these pyramids …
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4175
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy hooked tag with circular plate. The plate is decorated with two concentric engraved circles; between are 7 unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs and in the centre is a decorative perforation. There are two small sewing holes towards the top, one of which cuts one of the ring-and-dot motifs. The hook projects from the bottom and has lost its tip.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4125
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Spherical pin head with stub of shaft topped with a collar. Decorated with 5 irregularly spaced blobs of inlaid brownish ?enamel around the top and circumference, and another 3 pits which may be corrosion bubbles or may be empty champlevé enamel cells. Overall length 12 mm. Diameter of head 8 mm. Old break. From the form of the pin, it is certainly Middle Anglo-Saxon. Susan Youngs at the British Museum has examined the pin under a microscope, and comments that the brownish blobs look possibly vitreous. They appear to be a semi-translucent brown, which is not known in Middle An…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4126
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very worn stirrup-strap mount, sub-triangular with outcurved sides. Decorated with a fleur-de-lis-type motif in a bold relief band. 2 iron rivets above the short flange retain an iron plate. Hole in rounded apex. Approximate dimensions 50 x 32 mm. NB if this is indeed a Type 1, relief decoration is rare.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4128
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete bit/rein link from a bridle. One terminal survives complete; it is lozengiform externally, with three corner knops, and has an oval perforation 12 x 10 mm. At the fourth corner a D-section arm projects, which flares slightly towards a hollow-backed oval boss. Immediately beyond the boss is an incomplete oval ring (very old and worn breaks). It would have been attached to one end of the iron bit adjacent to the cheek piece, with the reins secured at the opposite end of the link. Surviving length 53.5 mm, probable original length c. 92 mm; maximum width (at terminal) 23 mm, m…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4139
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and garnet fragment, possibly half of a rather long biconical bead. A hollow cone in shape, it has a circumferential band of cloisonne garnets around both the wider and the narrower end, and four longitudinal bands of cloisonne garnets running between. The band around the wider end had perhaps eight rectangular garnets originally, set in cloisons (cells); three survive now and two of the cloisons are badly crushed. A strip of gold projecting from the edge of this crushed area may be part of the attachment to the other half of the bead, or part of a suspension loop if the object …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4140
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver hooked tag with circular plate decorated with an engraved spiral. The outer ring of the spiral has four pairs of transverse grooves arranged to form a cross. There are two small sewing holes towards the top of the plate, which flank the uppermost pair of grooves and cut through part of the spiral. All of the grooves are made from very fine rocked tracer work. At the bottom is a small complete sharp bent-under hook, with four transverse grooves at the top; these grooves are simply engraved. The plate is 12 mm in diameter and the total length is 17.5 mm. This is an unusual …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CROWFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4115
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete strap-end, missing its terminal. The front, back and sides are cast in one piece and the strap-end is hollow. The complete end is presumably the attachment end, as it is open and cut straight across, but there is no visible means of attachment. The other end is squashed and broken off (old break). Both front and back have identical openwork decoration with engraved detail, and the sides both have irregularly spaced transverse grooves. The decoration on front and back is complicated. Held with the attachment end uppermost, at the top is a pair of back-to-back birds with a ro…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TUNSTALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4078
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible double-hooked fastener. A length of squarish-section rod (2 to 2.5 mm square) has each tapering end bent round to form a hook. The points of the hooks are not sharp, and they have a gap of 3.5 mm between them. The gap is slightly off-centre. The sides of the fastener have some filemarks visible, and a longitudinal line which hints that the object may have been made from rolling and hammering sheet. The total length is 27 mm and the total width 14 mm. Similar double-hooked fasteners, often with very sharp hooks, are known from middle Anglo-Saxon contexts (e.g. Hamwic) but they…
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK COMBS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4080
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorative fragment of bridle cheekpiece, in the shape of a Ringerike-style animal head and neck. The neck springs from the side of a broken circular loop, curves downwards and then quickly turns a right angle to form a long and elegantly arching curve which tapers upwards towards the head. The neck is decorated with two engraved lines made up of tiny rocked punchmarks. The head has a crest of three points, rather like a cock's comb, and a long up-curved snout also ending in three points. The engraved border lines of the neck continue around the points of the snout and comb; a short t…
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CULPHO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3977
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Apparently a lead model for a brooch, which would have been circular and slightly domed. Some of the edges now appear to have been cut off straight, and the maximum surviving diameter is 21 mm. There is no decoration on the convex upper face. The reverse is flat, not hollowed, and has a surviving curled-over lug which looks like a catchplate. No pin lug survives. Perhaps a trial piece or a model which would have been used in the manufacturing process; similar to the small Anglo-Scandinavian domed disc brooches of the tenth century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3980
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Knob from a cruciform brooch, half-round and hollow on the reverse. The base is broken, so there is no evidence that it was made separately, and there is no evidence for the presence of an iron pin bar. It is therefore probably a top knob. The metal is very thin at the break, but immediately above there is a chunky moulding, then a waisted area, then a rounded half-hemisphere terminal.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MENDLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3981
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy hooked tag made from a piece of triangular sheet decorated with ring-and-dot motifs. Along the top are three ring-and-dots which have central circular perforations for attaching the tag. Below is a wobbly row of three more, then two irregularly stamped pairs, then a single one. The narrow apex of the tag is now bent out of shape, but would originally have been bent under to form a sharp hook. Original length probably c. 33 mm, maximum width 19 mm. Hooked tags were used by the Anglo-Saxons from the 7th to the 11th century and are hard to date, but such a large one…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3964
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular brooch, 23.5 mm in diameter, decorated with a relief animal with its head turned to look backwards. The animal is now rather worn and blurred but has four legs, a tail and a long neck ending in a head with an enormous ring-and-dot eye. There is a raised border with transverse nicks. On the reverse is a double pin bar lug, with remains of the iron pin bar and iron spring, and a transverse lug with hole and slot forming a catchplate. A similar backward-looking animal brooch found in an early 10th-century context in 16-22 Coppergate, York, gives the best archaeological date…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDEBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3947
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete harness link of complicated type. One terminal survives, sub-triangular externally with a knob at each corner, and circular internally. This has a long arm projecting from the centre of the base, D-shaped in section, which runs for a short length and then has a perforated rectangular lobe to one side. The outer edge of this perforated lobe is very thin and the perforation might have served to hold a strap. Opposite this lobe are two diverging projections, each ending in what looks like an animal's paw; one has three and the other four toes. After these, the arm is broken of…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3949
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object, perhaps a mount from a strap, made from a piece of copper-alloy strip folded in half and secured by a 5 mm long neat cylindrical copper-alloy rivet. Both ends are broken. Both halves of the strip are decorated with ring-and-dot motifs, the shorter having three and the longer having four (perhaps broken at the dot of the fourth, or at a second rivet hole). The fold (a smooth curve) has the corners cut off and holds a ring made of circular-section copper-alloy wire, the ends not quite meeting, 10 mm in diameter. There are similar medieval examples of narrow mount…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3913
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring with internal wear in one or possibly two places, and a thickening or projection opposite the more clearly worn area. Possibly a late Anglo-Saxon buckle frame. This object was found together with several early Anglo-Saxon finds, probably indicating a ploughed-out cemetery.
Created on: Friday 17th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3889
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large and near-complete copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The top knob is cast integrally with the headplate, and has a rectangular moulding at the junction which is decorated with longitudinal grooves. There is then a narrowed waist and a rounded knob above; the knob also has an integral terminal with relief Style I decoration of a face with V-shaped brow, two pellet eyes, a blob for a nose and a curling moustache (or possibly cheek) to either side. The side knobs are both missing. The headplate flares very slightly towards the bow and has a line of stamps down each edge; one row of sta…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3883
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual rectangular buckle frame made of copper alloy and now in two pieces (very recent break). One side is missing (fairly recent break); the surviving side is a low triangle in section, 5.5 mm wide, and has a rudimentary animal head at either end. The animal heads have a moulding at the junction with the side, with two blind-drilled holes with a notch in between representing the ears; there is no attempt to delineate other features. At right angles to one head the outer edge emerges, 3 mm wide with a projecting grooved pin rest in the centre and a break at the other end. At righ…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CULPHO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3872
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch missing the terminal to its foot but otherwise complete. The headplate is sub-circular, slightly wider than it is long, and is now bent on one side. It has two lines of double-crescent stamps running down the centre of the headplate, and traces of a border of annulet stamps which originally ran around the edge of the headplate. On the reverse is a pin bar lug whose perforation has worn through; there is a little iron staining around it. The bow has a flat panel at top and bottom, each decorated with two transverse grooves. In between the bow is facet…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3873
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Narrow cruciform brooch made of copper alloy, missing its foot (fresh break). The central panel of the headplate is the same width as the bow; there are traces of perhaps three or four ?double-crescent stamps running down each side. The wings are of thinner metal and have broken away almost completely (very old breaks). The top knob survives, chunky and full-round and cast in one with the headplate. It consists of a circular disc, then a waist and then a hemispherical terminal. On the reverse of the headplate is a pin bar lug with remains of the iron pin bar. The bow is steeply c…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3874
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch, probably of small-long type, with both the head and foot plate incomplete. In fact it is hard to tell which is the head or foot; both plates have a longitudinal ridge on the reverse, one of which is shorter and has a very slight dip in the centre, perhaps the remains of a perforation. This end therefore has a greater claim to being the headplate! All edges appear to be broken leaving a sub-oval shape 19.5 mm long and 16 mm wide. Corrosion makes any decoration invisible. The bow is chunky and sharply humped with a facet to either side and a triangular facet to …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3875
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Headplate of cruciform brooch. The central panel is raised but corrosion has removed most or all of the surface along with any decoration. There are larger corrosion bubbles down either side, which may possibly mark the site of lost stamps. Most of the wings are broken away. The top knob survives, cast in one with the headplate; it is quite rounded but flat on the reverse, and consists of a large hemispherical lobe with a narrow waist and raised band beneath. On the reverse of the headplate is a ridge which is all that remains of the pin bar lug. The break at the top of the bow i…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3876
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglian equal-armed brooch, part of bow and foot missing. The head is the usual triangular shape flaring to 27 mm wide; the corners are rounded. There is corrosion over most of the surface, so any decoration is invisible; where the surface does appear it is quite grey, so there may have been some white-metal coating. On the reverse is a broken pin bar lug and remains of the iron spring. The bow continues the gentle taper of the head; it is 12 mm wide at the junction with the head and 6.5 mm wide at the very fresh break. There is a short flat panel at the top but no decoration can …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3877
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver buckle, burnt and partially melted, probably during a cremation ceremony. The buckle has a large oval frame and pin which are attached to a small flattened semi-circular plate. Length 39mm, width 27mm, weight 17.4g. X-ray fluorescence at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 79%. This type of buckle is well known on the Continent from the late 5th century, and examples are very occasionally found in early Anglo-Saxon contexts. See Treasure Annual Report 2000, no. 71.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.