Record ID: SF-236920
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy medieval oval buckle with integral plate. The frame is oval in shape and a short, rectangular integral plate projects from its inner end. The inner end of this plate is pierced with two small, circular holes, the innermost of which still holds an in situ copper-alloy pin. The outer end of the plate is expanded slightly forming a sub-square terminal. This has a circular hole through its centre which still holds an in situ copper alloy rivet with wide, flat, circular head. The surface of the metal has a corroded reddish-brown patina.  See Egan and Pr…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F90E16
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. Only the outer edge of the buckle survives, heavily corroded. This is thickened and a knop can be seen to one end, which would have sat to one side of the strap bar originally.  This is an example of a Meols Type 2 buckle, a style that dates to the late 13th to early 14th century AD (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1). Length: 21.73mm, width: 14.61mm, thickness: 2.96mm, weight: 1.84g
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FE281D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval annular buckle/brooch. The hoop is circular in both shape and cross-section, its outer face decorated with fine transverse ribs. A simple copper-alloy pin with moulded annular head remains in situ.  Without a recess for the pin this is best defined as a buckle, although its delicate, decorative form shows some similarities to medieval annular brooches. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 64) suggest that the annular buckle form was in use from the late 14th century into the Post-Medieval period and they are difficult to date more closely. Diameter:…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-FD2E48
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy late Medieval or post-medieval annular buckle pin. It is of heavy, cast construction, sub-rectangular in cross-section and has a raised rounded moulding between the open loop and the shaft, decorated with four transverse grooves on the outer face. Its large size suggests that it came from a buckle rather than a brooch. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 64) suggest that the annular buckle form was in use from the late 14th century into the Post-Medieval period. Two buckles with similar pins are illustrated in the report on the Meols assemblage (Griffiths et al…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-FC944F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle with plate. The object consists of a simple D-shaped frame with thickened outer edge folded flat and corroded against a rectangular plate, obscuring some of the detail. A distorted copper-alloy pin is visible to one side folded back against the plate. The plate itself is formed from a long rectangular strip folded in two around the strap bar of the frame with a slot left for the pin. Two in situ copper-alloy rivets remain through the outer end of the plate and one in the centre with any at the inner end now not visible.  The frame is a…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8A3345
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded copper-alloy medieval buckle with integral plate. The buckle frame is oval in shape, with a slightly thickened outer edge. The integral plate is D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face, long, narrow and tapers slightly towards its outer end, which culminates in a slightly wider sub-rectangular section with a small, pointed hook extending from the centre of its outer end. There is a single hole through the outer end of the plate and two through the inner end. The outer face of the plate is decorated with two wide bands of stippling, one at the inner en…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-484796
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle. It is sub-oval in shaped with a thickened outer edge, its outer face decorated with a transverse groove across the centre and each end and a recessed and narrowed strap bar. A simple copper-alloy wire pin remains wrapped around the strap bar. Meols Type 10 (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1), which dates to the later 14th century AD. Length: 23.73mm, width: 17.57mm, thickness: 2.64mm, weight: 3.20g
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F35721
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle/strap fitting component. The main loop of the frame is T-shaped, comprising a wide, rectangular outer section with a narrower rectangular section projecting at a right-angle from the centre of its inner edge. The outer end of this latter, rear section culminates in a slightly wider, oval-shaped attachment loop with a narrow, raised, transverse collar accross the outer face of its inner end. An in situ copper-alloy pin sits within the rear section of the loop. The outer face of the pin is decorated with a raised transverse ridge in …
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A2AF47
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. Only the outer part of the frame survives. This thickens slightly towards the outer edge and there is a slight knop at either end of the strap bar suggesting that it was probably a Meols Type 2 (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1), which dates to the late 13th to early 14th century.  Length: 19.69mm, width: 13.58mm, thickness: 2.25mm, weight: 1.06g
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A29CDE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. It is sub-oval in shape with a recessed and narrowed strap bar and a wider sub-rectangular section projecting from the centre of the outer edge. This latter section has a slightly concave outer face decorated with a central raised transverse ridge and its outer edge curves inwards slightly. The pin is missing. Meols Type 6 (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1) dating to the late 13th to early 14th century. Length: 15.94mm, width: 14.43mm, thickness: 3.81mm, weight: 1.86g
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A284CA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy probable medieval buckle plate. Only the outer part of the plate survives. This is sub-rectangular in shape with a solid outer end and three incomplete prongs with gaps between them projecting from the inner end. Two widely spaced transverse grooves decorate the outer face of the outer end and there is a knop in the centre of the reverse of this face, which appears to be a separate rivet, although this is too corroded to be certain. This example probably belongs to a group of buckles with openwork plates featuring two elongated, ornate holes. See for …
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-265D86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. It is sub-oval in shape with slight outwards curving sides and recessed and narrowed outer end and strap bar. Probably a separate sheet metal roller was in situ around the outer end originally, but this is now missing.  Meols Type 12, which dates to the late 13th/ early 14th century (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1). Length: 19.18mm, width: 14.57mm, thickness: 3.91mm, weight: 2.34g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2656BC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. It is sub-oval in shape with a narrowed and recessed strap bar and thickened outer edge. There is a small knop to either end of the strap bar and tracess of iron corrosion in places on its surface. The thickened outer edge has a knop projecting from either end and both of its faces are decorated with a tranverse ridge behind each knop and a central transverse groove. Meols Type 10, which dates to the late 14th century (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1). Length: 28.35mm, width: 21.91mm, thickness: 4.79mm, weight: 4.97g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-264875
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. Only the outer part survives. This is narrowed and recessed with a prominant knop to either end suggesting that it probably accommodated a separate sheet metal roller originally. As such it is most likely to belong to Meols Type 12, which dates to the late 13th to early 14th century (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1).  Length: 20.58mm, width: 7.84mm, thickness: 5.45mm, weight: 2.84g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-263E7E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy medieval buckle frame. Only the outer edge of the frame survives. This is expanded and unusually ornately decorated. Both faces are divided into found rounded knops separated by two transverse ridges in the centre and one transverse ridge between the outer knops. One face is further decorated with a cross-hatched engraved motif covering the surface of each knop. This is an example of a Meols Type 8 buckle, which dates to the late 13th to 14th century AD (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1). Length: 47.32mm, width: 21.89mm, thickness: 5.61mm, weight: 8.21g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D11BC0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval annular brooch/buckle. The object consists of a simple loop, D-shaped in cross-section with a flattened reverse and rounded outer face and with eight elongated knops projecting from the outer edge at regular intervals. There is a break to one side and the two ends now overlap.  Although unusual in style a small number of similar annular brooches/buckles have now been recorded on the PAS database. See for example: IOW-229096 and WILT-1AE2C5 with their pins in situ. The present example seems to lack a pin recess - the short st…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cratfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-D0DF7E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval rectangular locking buckle. The frame is rectangular in shape with a thickened outer end. This end is recessed to its reverse and has a transverse groove across the centre of its outer face to act as a pin rest. Each longer side has a rounded expansion towards the inner end; both pierced with a small hole through which the end of the locking arm is secured. The tubular head of the in situ copper-alloy pin sits around this part of the arm, allowing it to move freely. The arm itself is curved into a U-shape, extending back around the inner en…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grundisburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D01C65
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval single loop buckle with integral plate. The frame is a simple D-shape with the remains of the integral plate projecting from its inner end. There is a small hole through the centre of the inner edge of the plate where a simple copper-alloy wire pin remains in situ. The outer edge of the plate terminates in a break with three widely spaced prongs projecting suggesting that it was openwork originally. There is a small hole through the plate just behind the pin hole which is filled with the remains of corroded iron. There are trace of a white metal coat…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cratfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-54BEC9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval single loop buckle. Small in size and D-shaped with a projecting pin rest in the centre of the outer edge and a recessed and narrowed strap bar. A simple copper-alloy wire pin remains in situ. Meols Type 4 (Griffiths et al. 2007, fig.2.5.1), which dates to the late 14th century. Length: 12.75mm, width: 12.21mm, thickness: 2.42mm, weight: 1.00g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-551506
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy buckle frame. It is D-shaped with a narrowed strap bar, slightly inset on its inner edge. The pin is missing. The buckle belong's to Marzinzik's (2003) Typegroup I.5, which she suggests was in use from the second half of the 5th to the end of the 7th century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.