Record ID: SF-259D39
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probable Roman tumbler-lock lift key. It is shaped like a letter E with each outer prong terminating in a point and the central one in a break where the stem would have extended originally. Despite this break it survives in good condition with a green patina. Keys of similar form has been recorded from Bedford (BH-0852F6) and Hampshire (HAMP-66BB77). Manning (1985, Plate 40; refs. O23-O25) also illustrates lift keys of similar form with T-shaped bits. Length: 11.8mm, width: 9.7mm, thickness: 2.3mm, weight: 0.94g
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-258DD7
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probably Roman balance or steelyard arm. It is formed from a long strip of metal rolled into a circular cross-sectioned tube. It becomes slightly flattened towards one end, culminating in a break, which appears to have been a loop originally. There appears to be a break across the other end too. Just below this break, to one side, is a very small protruding knop. It has a fine green patina. The object seems likely to be a balance arm, possibly of Roman date. It is very similar in form to two examples from Colchester, the former a balance and the latter a …
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2579C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a gilded copper alloy possible brooch of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. It is roughly triangular in form. The outer face has a raised ridge along its surviving edge and raised moulded interlace decoration inside this, this is of style 1 decoration. Unfortunately this decoration is too fragmentary for the original design to be seen. The breaks around the other two sides are very worn. Gilding covers most of the outer face. The fragment probably come from a cruciform or square-headed brooch, or possibly a mount or other object. Length: 23.4mm, width: 8.9mm, thick…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-25681C
Object type: SPATULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable copper-alloy Roman surgical or pharmaceutical spatula.The object consists of a small section of the stem and a spatulate terminal. The stem is circular in cross-section with two The object is probably the terminal end of a spatula or instrument incorporating a spatula. Crummy (1985, 63, fig.68, no.1948) illustrates a similar example from excavations in Colchester found in a context dated c.AD 150-250 at Balkerne Lane, while another of very different form was discovered in a pit that was dated to no earlier than the late 2nd century (ibid., no.1950). …
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-25407A
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman strip bracelet/armlet. It is very narrow, rectangular in cross-section and slightly curved in profile. The outer face is decorated with a wide band of incised cross-hatching with an undecorated section at each end. The metal has a dark green patina and the breaks are worn. Narrow bracelets such as these were in use during the late Roman period. The style of decoration belong's to Cool's (2000, 139, fig.167) Type G2. A very similar example was excavated at Colchester (Crummy 1983, 44, no.1714). Length: 24.5mm, width: 3.9mm, thickness: 0.8mm, weight: 0.62g
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-251DD8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman finger ring. Only the outer part of the ring survives. It has a central raised oval bezel. This is damaged, but appears to be undecorated. To either side the shoulders are slightly raised, each stepping down to the slightly narrower band, which appears to be D-shaped in cross-section although most of it is missing. The fragment is heavily corroded with worn breaks. The angular shoulders and raised bezel suggest that the ring is probably Henig's Type VIII, which are of 3rd century AD date. Length: 18.3mm, width: 6.7mm, thickness: 2.1mm, weight: 2.03g
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-24F15B
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman strip bracelet/armlet. Only a small portion of one of the ends survives. This is narrow and flattened. The outer face is decorated with three engraved ring and dots, the one at the terminal with a small circular hole through its centre. This is a common feature of bracelets with this style of decoration. See for example PAS record WILT-528744. Swift's (2005, 118-9) Type B1, which she dates from c.AD 350 into the early 5th century Length: 14.8mm, width: 5.5mm, thickness: 0.8mm, weight: 0.43g
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-24DCCA
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Roman hair pin. The head is globular and the shaft is circular in cross-section, tapering to a sharp point. The shaft has been bent at a right angle half way along its length. It survives in very good condition with a shiny green patina. The pin is likely to be of Roman date, belonging to Colchester Type 3 ('pins with more of less spherical head'), which was in use throughout the Roman period. Length: 40.8mm, diameter of stem: 1.3mm, diameter of head: 4.1mm, weight: 1.37g
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-24C551
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy unidentified object of possible Iron Age or Roman date. It consists of a semi-cylindrical section with a v-shaped groove running the length of its outer face. The interior of this groove is coarse, suggesting that it was attached to something else originally. A bar extends from the centre of the reverse, c.14mm in length, rectangular in cross-section and tapering slightly to a rounded break at its end. This bar curves to one side very slightly in profile and has a faint recessed trinagular moulding on one face behind the join with the other section. The meta…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-249763
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval copper-alloy composite strap-end (c. 1250-c. 1400). One plate and a spacer are missing. The surviving plate is incomplete as part of the attachment end and part of the knop are missing. The knop, which was in the form of a scalloped knop, is pierced by a copper-alloy rivet. The attachment end has a transverse break. This plate is corroded and has patches of a dark green patina. Length: 39.4mm; width: 13.9mm; thickness: 2.2mm. Weight: 3.45g. A very similar example was found at Meols (Griffiths et al. 2007: 135, pl. 23, ref: 1551). A Similar shape…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-246B87
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval (c. 1650-c. 1850) copper-alloy pipe tamper combined with signet finger ring: Only a fragment of the artefact remains, and this is the bezel of the finger ring element. The bezel is oval in plan with tapering shoulders. There is a trace of the hoop which is a D-shape in section. The bezel is decorated with a low-relief beaded border within which there is a low-relief initial of I and C which, between them, has a vertical, linear motif with a interlace design at the base and at the upper terminal has a triangle and cross design. The central motif may represent a merchants …
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: IOW-2445A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver long cross cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), probably minted at London. Class 5 (not further defined), 1250-1275 (North 1994: 226-227, refs: 991/1-999). Obverse: [hENRICVS] REX III; Crowned bust facing with sceptre Reverse: [ ]/[ ]O/NLV/[ ]; Voided long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant Diameter: 17.5mm. Weight: 0.74g. North, J.J. 1994. English Hammered Coinage, Volume I, Early Anglo Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2016
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Record ID: WAW-2444B1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin: halfgroat of Edward III (1279-1377) minted in London between AD 1363 and 1369. North No. 1259. Treaty Series.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: SF-2444A8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (middle Anglo-Saxon) ansate brooch. Only one terminal survives. This is roughly retangular with inwards curving sides and a rounded lobe at each corner, but the outer end is missing. The outer face is decorated with incised ring-and-dots in the centre, at each of the four corners and in the centre of the outer end. The broken stump of the central bow remains attached to the inner end. To the reverse is a worn and damaged trapezoidal catch-plate. The surface of the metal is corroded and there is damage around all edges. It finds no precise p…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-2424BD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin: halfgroat of Henry VI (1422-1461) minted in Calais between 1430 and 1434. Pinecone-Mascle type. North No. 1463.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-24200D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A white semi- opaque glass bead of unknown date. It is sub spherical with flattened ends and a circular central perforation. Beads can date from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval period. There is Roman and Medieval material from this area, but similar beads are often found on Post Medieval lace making bobbins too. The bead appears to be handmade. It is 11.7mm diameter, 8.1mm tall and the central hole is 3.9mm diameter. 1.3g.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Record ID: WAW-24159F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin: probable halfpenny of a Medieval ruler minted in York probably between 1461 and 1509.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-240576
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy double looped trapezoidal buckle dating from the Post-Medieval period, AD 1620-1680. It is rectangular in shape with a central bar that splits the buckle into two trapezoid sections, but only one half survives. Each of the corners are decorated with moulded ovid projecting knops and both ends of the central bar are decorated with rounded protrusions. The outer edge is triangular with concave sides forming a dramatic point. A groove across the point acts as a pin rest. Ther pin and plate are missing. The buckle is 32.1mm long, 40.3mm wide and 2.7mm thick. 7.9g. A simi…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Record ID: WAW-240533
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval piedfort jetton: The struck copper alloy jetton is a type of jetton called a piedfort due to its thickness. The jetton is slightly concave on the reverse and convex on the obverse. The edges of the jetton are abraded. The introduction of the thick piedfort jettons during the 15th century appears to have resulted from the popularisation of a new method for performing the calculations for manual accountancy; the Tree of Numeration method (Mitchiner, 249). These jettons date to c. 1450 and 1580 and were by a number of issuers in Tournai and Nuremberg. This ex…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: WAW-23F218
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin; groat of Mary (1553-1554) minted in London between 1553 and 1554. North No. 1960.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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