Record ID: SF-4CD1A0
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon bit-link. One terminal is now incomplete due to old breaks. The complete terminal is an oval shaped loop, there is then a rounded boss and a rectangular shaft with a D-shaped section, the fragments of the incomplete terminal perhaps imply that it was also oval in shape. It measures 45.71mm in surviving length, the surviving terminal is 21.76mm in width and the shaft is 8.14mm in width. Other similar bit links are known from elsewhere for example Brockham, Surrey (Williams, 2007, unpublished).
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waldringfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-49AD97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon foot of cruciform brooch. Below an ancient break two sets of very fine transverse engraved lines and single notch on both sides. Very simple half-round moulding with a pair of transverse grooves below side chamfers. Slightly protruding eyes and a strong median arris down to swollen undivided nostrils, which are decorated with very finely engraved oblique lines. Terminal projecting loop with transverse hole. Length 43mm. Martin dates this type to c. 475-c. 500 AD (2015, 126).
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunton', grid reference and parish protected.