Record ID: SF-732B7E
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete sheet copper-alloy handle attachment from a strainer or skimmer of probable late-Medieval to early Post-Medieval date. The base of the handle attachment and a small fragment of the skimmer itself survive, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It has a flat, rectangular back plate that tapers to a rounded base. On the back face of this plate is a second rectangular plate of equal dimensions and form, but which projects at its centre to form a rectangular socket that runs the length of the plates and would have enabled attachment of a handle. The two plates are held…
Created on: Tuesday 9th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6E83BF
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy circular strainer of Medieval date. Only part of the plate survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn. It is flat with multiple punched circular perforations before terminating in old breaks. This strainer measures 23.56mm in length, 12.06mm in width, 1.04mm in thickness, 0.82g in weight. There is a similar example from London (Egan, 1998, p. 158, no. 440) and recorded on the PAS database (SF-682A7D).
Created on: Tuesday 9th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.