Record ID: NMS-7FA925
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Plate brooch, oval, broken outer edge, sexfoil comprising circular central cell containing greenish decayed remains of enamelling, radiating foils and border of zig-zag line between concentric line and outside edge, remains of orange/red enamelling. Remains of double pin-lug on reverse, most of other lug for catch-plate missing. 32 x 34mm. 2nd century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F93E8
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Mid/Late Saxon hooked tag, slightly trapezoidal, decoration comprises remains of two pairs of broad flat ribs with stamped ring-and-dot between three and below one narrow knurled ribs, broken across one of two perforations for attachment in corners of upper edge, >17 x >14mm. Cf. Margeson (in Rogerson 1995) 56-8, fig.39. 8th-11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F3D28
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy La Téne III brooch, bent one piece, broken where tapering for spring with plain tapering bow and broken trapezoidal catch-plate, 4 x >37mm. 1st century BC/early AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mettingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F2FA1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete buckle, fragment of rectangular frame, part of both convex sides with vestigial transverse ridge at corners, offset narrowed bar, fragment of sheet pin, slightly tapering rectangular sheet plate folded widthways with pin-slot and recessed for frame, pierced by copper alloy rivet at attachment-end, 32 x 18mm. Cf. Dress Accessories fig.61, nos.437-8. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mettingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F1F93
Object type: PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment very probably from a processional cross, broken and distorted, part of heavily-cast concave-sided circular frame (diameter 60mm) with offset flange on inside edge and projecting elaborate openwork elaborate quatrefoil, each foil with circular perforation and elongated projecting lobe between foils on three outer edges, cracked and bent around onto side. The frame is pierced by a single copper alloy rivet with burred-over head. The quatrefoil has engraved linear decoration on both sides. 15th century. Very similar to openwork mounts and frames around the edge of a 1…
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mettingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F0345
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment of buckle plate, crude rectangular back-part, with pin-slot and slightly recessed for frame, corroded iron rivet at attachment-end, >46 x 13mm.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E86E2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval gilt Buckle, very corroded oval frame with broad flat-backed outside edge with constriction for sheet roller decorated with traces of horizontal groove, broken offset narrowed bar with flattened D-sectioned pin, 14 x 22mm. Cf. broadly similar example in Dress Accessories (1991), fig.42, no.270. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E74D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age La Téne III type brooch, four coils, internal chord below shallow arched rectangular-sectioned bow decorated with twin vertical broad and shallow grooves above two transverse grooves, damaged triangular catch-plate, 12 x 33mm. 1st century BC/early AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E5FC5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small Romano-British Dolphin brooch, very corroded, damaged and short wings obscured by iron corrosion, broken lug for missing spring, vertical median rib on D-sectioned bow, foot and catch-plate missing, >13 x >30mm. c.40-65 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D68982
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval incomplete Silvered hooked tag from clothing, back-plate with no surviving outside edge, central hollow domed boss with three applied pellets within three circles of twisted wire with three of originally four further pellets in centre and within smaller loops in outer interstices, all within twisted wire border, flattened terminal of separate circular-sectioned hook soldered onto reverse, >12 x 22mm. cheap version of form of object more commonly found in silver, Cf. Gaimster, Hayward, Mitchell and Parker Antiquaries' Journal (2002). 16th century.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Melford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-972657
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval Fragment of bell, with peg-argent (45 x 26mm), but without crown-staple from which a clapper would perhaps have been hung. The surviving part of the upper surface has engraved decoration bordering the break. This break runs along the outer engraved line that may coincide with the change of angle at the shoulder (approx.diam.70mm at break). The decoration comprises two concentric lines containing oblique lines forming chevrons within which are alternating horizontal lines and inverted chevrons. The absence of a clapper suggests that the bell was struck with a small hand-he…
Created on: Friday 9th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Melford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0423D6
Object type: RING
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Undated Ring, sub-rectangular section with filed angles, diameter 25-6mm, metal looks ancient.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0412C2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with slight median rib ending in slightly squashed perforated lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, diameter 28mm. a crude bust facing dexter within two interlaced concave-sided five-pointed stars. + S’ IOh’IS FIL’ PETRI (Seal of John son of Peter). Five linked oblique lines forming zig-zag line with pellet in each triangular space as a filler at end of inscription.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-040376
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Incomplete gilt buckle plate, rectangular, folded widthways with pin-slot and recessed for frame, broken with one loop and back-plate missing, rivet-hole at each corner, one of which retains a dome-headed rivet, rocker-arm quatrefoil within eight purse-shaped stamps containing blue enamel, 35 x 35mm. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-03DB16
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval Clothing fastener, tear-shaped hollow-backed body with double-collar pierced by copper alloy rivet at broad end retaining separate openwork trefoil link. The other end has a lobe with tiny terminal knop at point, pierced by iron rivet, sheet back plate missing, 22 x 50mm. Cf. Read (1996) nos.994-6. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DEFE21
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness stud, shield-shaped broad with flattened base and concave-sided point (24 x 28mm), square-sectioned spike on reverse, split at point, projects 12mm. Red and blue enamel and tiny speck of gilding survive. Blazon: Barry of six Or and Azure a label Gules. Possibly for Henry de PEMBRIDGE, of West Hyde, Beds, living in 1300. Henry may be the individual of the same name who forfeited his lands for rebellion, 1323 (Brault (1997) vol.2, 336). Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63F602
Object type: ROTARY KEY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Fragment of Rotary key, very worn, broken hollow oval-sectioned shank, bow missing, bit with three transverse and one longitudinal clefts in broad base and deep cleft in outside edge, >43 x >20mm. Cf. Egan (1998) fig.88, no.313. 14th–15th century.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mutford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63D9E5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Buckle frame, elaborate asymmetrical oval, one half flanked by concave constrictions, the other half with remains of seven transverse grooves, narrowed central bar, pin missing. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.265. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mutford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63C732
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Composite buckle, oval frame with notched projecting triangular lip and integral forked spacer with narrowed bar, pin missing. The arms of the forked spacer have been cut-down and a cut sheet plate folded around on front and back with broad slot at attachment edge, containing an iron spindle around which is folded a fragment of cut copper alloy sheet. This secondary modification appears to have replaced the rigid plate with a hinged one, 27 x 22mm. Cf. Dress Accessories (1991), figs.48-9. Second half of 14th-early 15th century.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mutford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63B6C8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon incomplete Small-long brooch, probably Leeds ‘cross-potent derivative type’, bent and corroded, damaged head-plate with pitted (?stamped) raised rectangular panel, semi-circular notch survives in one lower corner, other lower corner missing, edge damaged, broken pierced lug on reverse, thin distorted and broken bow, ancient breaks, 22 x >34mm.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mutford', grid reference and parish protected.