Record ID: SF9087
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy key, missing its bit. The bow is circular internally, but externally is decorated with a pair of stylised three-dimensional animal heads, one on each side, which appear to be gripping the far end of the bow in their mouths. The stem is octagonally facetted. It begins with a short rounded section, which is divided from the rest of the stem by a ridge. Beyond this, about 15 mm of the stem is solid, and then it has an off-centre longitudinal hole which has broken through on one side. Total surviving length 56.5 mm. The metal is a very pale, but apparently stable, grey-green.…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9088
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring 28 mm in diameter, with an oval or slightly facetted hexagonal cross-section measuring about 1-1.5 x 2 mm. With a dark brown patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9089
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring, a slightly uneven 23-4 mm in diameter. In cross-section it is oval or slightly facetted hexagonally, with one face being much flatter than the other; the cross-section measures about 1 x 2 mm. There are many uncleaned casting flashes around both internal and external edges. With a corroded green patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9090
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. The die is shield-shaped, measuring 14 x 13 mm, with a straight top and convex sides meeting at a point; on the reverse there is a hexagonally facetted conical handle which rises to the stubs of a broken-off perforated terminal. The surviving height is 13 mm. The die is very battered and it is hard to make out the engraved design. It appears to have a chief with a design which is hard to make out; it appears to be a finely engraved frieze but there are occasional shield-shaped seal matrices which have a short inscription here. Below, the main part of the …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9091
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One terminal and fragment of side, from a slender copper-alloy spur. The fragment of side is biconvex in cross-section, with the outer side being more highly curved than the inner. It measures 3.5 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick at the break, then flares very slightly to join the figure-8 terminal at an angle at one of the circular loops. This loop has a V-shaped projection in the angle between the side and the terminal. Now corroded to a rough brown colour. 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9092
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny strap-slide made from copper alloy, with a single integral external rivet with a burred-over end. It is trapezoidal, measuring 9 mm wide at the edge with the rivet and 10 mm wide at the opposite edge. Each edge is roughly triangular or trapezoidal in cross-section, and has visible filemarks, so it is quite well-made despite its tiny size. Length of loop 9 mm; total length 13 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9093
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped relief-decorated openwork mount made from copper alloy. The design consists of a central cross made up of five large pellets, surrounded by a ring of smaller pellets with perforations in the angles of the cross. To either side a single large pellet projects, and to either end is a trefoil of large pellets. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes. It is corroded to a rough purple-brown. This type of mount is superficially quite similar to a type of lozengiform openwork late Anglo-Saxon brooch, and together with ball-headed pins and hooked tags forms a clas…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9094
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead spindle whorl, 28-29 mm in diameter and 12.5 mm tall, with a central circular perforation which tapers from 12 mm in diameter at the base to 10 mm in diameter at the top. The flattish base originally had a wide groove hollowed out around the perforation, but part of this has been scraped away recently, probably by agricultural machinery. The sides are fairly straight and the top is rounded, with two older scrapes across it.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9095
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead 'spindle whorl', plano-convex in shape. The maximum diameter is 35 mm close to the base, which has a hollowed-out centre with a perforation in the centre. The perforation is circular and tapers from 13 mm in diameter at the base to 9 mm diameter at the top. The upper part of the object is domed and undecorated, and it is 19 mm tall. Although these objects are known as spindle whorls, this one seems far too large and heavy for this; it may be a general-purpose weight. Undatable.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9096
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead spindle whorl, a very slightly tapering cylinder with rounded edges. It is 24 mm in diameter at the base and 23 mm in diameter at the top, and 17 mm tall. In the centre is a circular perforation which tapers from 9 mm in diameter at the base to 8 mm at the top.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9097
Object type: WEIGHT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tall lead weight, now a little damaged. The base is rectangular, measuring perhaps 12 x 17 mm, and has a damaged downwards projection forming a foot at each corner. In between, the base is slightly hollowed and has a dot at the centre. There are two large flat rectangular sides and two narrower triangular sides, rising to a ridge at the top; there is no suspension loop. It weighs 34.30g (1.21 oz), which is obviously not a round figure in the medieval and post-medieval avoirdupois system, so its date and function should remain tentative.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9098
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Octagonally facetted conical lead weight, 13.5 mm in diameter at the base and 19 mm tall. Very carefully made, with a small hole running up from a depression in the base to emerge at the top. It weighs 14.36g (0.50 oz), and must have lost some weight through oxidation, so that if it was made as a half-ounce avoirdupois trade weight it would originally have been slightly over-weight (to the disadvantage of the trader). Probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9099
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. In cross-section it is triangular with rounded sides and corners, and it tapers slightly from one end to the other. The wider end has a deep U cut out of the end, and the narrower end has a swollen and crudely rounded end. Both ends are rough and full of casting flaws and holes.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9076
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Long narrow sub-triangular part-polished flint axehead. It is polished all over except for the larger flake scars along the edges. The blade is 41 mm wide and the axe then tapers, with straight sides, to a very narrow butt just 8 mm wide. The axe is complete, apart from two largish (recent?) chips to the blade and one from each edge; there are also two linear scrapes, both brown so perhaps from corroded iron, on one face. The flint is a blotchy pale/medium grey, appearing to be more pale brown where chipped.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HADDISCOE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9078
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Flat cross-shaped pendant made from copper alloy and now rather corroded. Each arm of the cross flares from the centre; the centre is decorated with a single ring-and-dot motif. One of the side arms is shorter than the other, but both are identically shaped with the outer edge incurved. The lower arm is the longest, and has a straight-cut outer edge. The upper arm ends in a suspension loop which is turned at right angles to the plane of the cross, reminiscent of loops on medieval horse-harness pendants. This pendant is extremely hard to date, and the ring-and-dot decoration gives …
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF9079
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Loop and part of socket from a large bronze socketed axe. It has a broad single mouth moulding above a large, broad loop which is blocked by a casting flaw. In places, espectially the outer face, the surface is chipped and pitted due to invasive corrosion. All edges are badly corroded and worn. Patinated dark green with variations of paler green due to corrosion. The axe, although incomplete, is larger than average and may be relatively late, i.e. transitional LBA 3/4 or LBA 4 (perhaps a Sompting-related form). The surviving length is 42 mm, the width across the face with the loop…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT BEALINGS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9068
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object. Made from lead, it is roughly circular but all its edges may be broken. It is slightly dished, and on the convex face is a raised circle 13 mm in diameter in which is a relief mark, perhaps a W with a horizontal line through it, or perhaps a pair of Xs. On the concave face, opposite the mark, is a sunken square measuring 3 x 5 mm. It has been suggested that this might be the base of a pewter vessel, and Roman, but no parallel has been found.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9069
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early post-medieval cast copper-alloy toggle-clasp: the toggle-end dating to c. 16th - c.17th century AD. The fragment consists of a raised and protruding toggle bar at one end, at the end of a plate decorated with symmetrically cast bifurcated knops on both sides of a small circular rivet hole, through which the object has broken. The toggle bar is a lunate bar mount, seemingly integral. A similar example can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 209; ref. 754). Read has identified this type as an 'Early post-medieval, Type 1' toggle-clasp, although he mentions th…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9070
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from a rectangular piece of copper-alloy sheet 12.5 mm wide, the lower part of which is rolled up to form a tapering point. Now very corroded. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9071
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount. It is basically almost circular, 16 x 17 mm, and is plano-convex, with a flat reverse and domed upper surface. Two oval perforations with small stems breaking through the edge turn this into a mushroom- or pelta-shape, the stalk of the mushroom having an expanded base. On the reverse is an integral spike or rivet. The mount itself is 6 mm thick; the rivet increases this to 12 mm. These mounts are not common and it is possible that they are military armour or horse-harness fittings.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.