Record ID: ESS-699F63
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount, probably late medieval. The mount is subcircular in plan and domed in section with a recessed reverse. It shows a human face of indeterminable gender. The face is moulded with a hairstyle that frames each side of the face. It has a grooved centre parting with two transverse grooves that breaks the top of the hairstyle into three rows. There are incised diagonal lines along the rows of hair which give it a textured detail. The face is moulded with a prominent triangular nose, now slightly damaged. The eyes are formed from incised lentoids with central dots. The …
Created on: Monday 19th 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: ESS-EDE880
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy 11th century stirrup mount of Williams's class A, type 5. The complete stirrup mount would have consisted of a pentagonal, flat frame or body, set within a pair of tendril like shapes, down each diagonal side, which terminate in scrolls. Extending from the apex would have been a long, handle like extension, which would have probably terminated in a zoomorphic head that supported the apex loop. The lower portion of the stirrup mount would have had the two rivet holes and flange for attachment. The fragment recorded here represents the tendrils and upper po…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bildeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EA2FB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Uninscribed Iron Age unit. BM 404.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-849592
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy brooch 13th century brooch. The brooch is sub-shield shaped in plan and domed in section, in that it is a moulded design with a slightly flatter reverse. The frame is formed from two opposing figures each with both arms upraised, joined together by a trapezoidal section to complete the frame at the upper edge. The lower portion of frame is formed from the lower bodies of the figures curving down and inwards into a single leg, which are similarly joined as the hands, with a rectangular portion of frame. Beneath this rectangular portion, at the lower centre of …
Created on: Thursday 8th 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: ESS-0D3BA3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Charles I. North 2254.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-0C1461
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn Roman copper alloy 'Urbs Roma' coin.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-D540A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy mid first century Romano-British brooch of Colchester-derivative Polden Hill (folded wings, Eastern Group) type. The wings of the brooch are complete and cylindrical. There is a deliberate slot to the rear of the cylinder, which we would expect to hold a spring mechanism, but this slot reveals the remains of a coiled spring partially surviving to one side. Otherwise the majority of the springhead is missing, as is the pin shaft. The ends of the wings are not capped. The front of the wings are decorated with a pair vertical grooved lines, placed at either s…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxtead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-422276
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Severus Alexander, AD 222-235. BMC 364.
Created on: Monday 6th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-06D096
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I, Class 4e, North 1027.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0549D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy double oval framed buckle. The frame is figure of eight in plan and bevelled in profile. The pin bar is circular in section. The original surface survives with a dark green patina. Exposed areas are light green. The frame is plain to both sides. The pin is entirely missing. The buckle is 24.54mm long, 21.18mm wide, 2.42mm thick and weighs 2.83g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories London: HMSO, figure 50, illustrate similar examples. Following these examples, this buckle dates to the 14th or 15th centuries.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham Green', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-030CB5
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, cast copper alloy Late Bronze Age pegged spearhead. The socket of the spearhead is essentially conical, having a circular section, and tapering into the rib of the blade. The once leaf-shaped blade (probably elliptical) is very worn down and little more than two flanges, that represent the lower blade survive. The surviving tip of the object is truncated and a small circular hole at the tip shows the cross section of the circular mid rib. Further damage from this truncation exists in a crack that runs from the broken tip for approximately 10mm down onto the rib. The side of…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F0D0B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy buckle with integral plate, dating to the 13th century. The buckle frame is subrectangular in plan with slightly expanded top corners and is slightly domed in section, having a flat reverse. At the front of the frame is an integral moulding of two, parallel transverse raised lines which form the pin rest. The frame is split along one side. At the point where the buckle meets with the integral plate, is a raised moulded band that runs in parallel to the frame. This band is pierced with a circular hole, which would have held the pin. The pin is entirely miss…
Created on: Thursday 2nd June 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxtead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EE3F54
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy medieval buckle plate. This object is formed from two plates, rectangular in plan and flat in section. The front plate is damaged at one short end, but it is possible to see four surviving rivet holes and a damaged fifth hole at the broken end. There is a hole at each corner and one set in the centre. A copper alloy rivet survives in the central hole and in the bottom right hand corner (when viewed with the damaged end to the left). These join with the back plate, in effect creating a sandwich space between the plates. The back plate is much more damaged than th…
Created on: Thursday 2nd June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxtead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A28B00
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, cast copper alloy buckle with integral plate. The buckle frame is subcircular in plan with a pointed, grooved knop to the front that acts as the pin rest. The frame is D shaped in section, having a flat inner edge and domed outer edge. The integral plate is rectangular. It has a wedge shaped profile, as it tapers away from the frame. There are two holes in the plate, the first to hold the pin and the second for riveting the buckle to the leather. Both pin and rivet are missing. The original surface is missing and the buckle now has an abraded surface that is mid green in co…
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9F2C15
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman coin, possibly a radiate.
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boxted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9EF594
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman barbarous radiate coin.
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boxted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8E4F70
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy terminal or knife-stop from a post medieval knife. This terminal is formed from a single sheet of metal. If laid flat out, the object would have a central flat, sub-circular disc from which extends two opposing rectangular arms. These arms have been folded down from the disc at 90 degrees so that the form the walls of the terminal. They have been curved, and just about meet, so that they roughly echo the sides of the subcircular disc. Each of the rectangular side sections has been incised with a cross. In the lower angle of each cross is a circular perforation for…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-551B03
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy ‘Wessex type La Tène I’, one piece Iron Age brooch. The head of the brooch is now missing, but would once have comprised of an integral four coil spring head that would have then extended into the pin shaft. An upward pointing, pointed knop is all that remains of this construction. The bow of the brooch is distinctively arched with a flared C shape profile. It is subrectangular in section, and tapers to either end. The foot of the brooch is incomplete and now points straight down, with the remains of the catchplate curl. Hattatt, 1985, Iron Age and Roman Br…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D1A563
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Worn silver Roman Republican denarius. Without any legends it is difficult to get an exact reference, however stylistically it is close to Crawford (RRC) 274 which would date to c 123 BC. However, it could fall anywhere between 144-116 BC in date.
Created on: Friday 1st April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-C081F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
North Thames (Catuvellauni/Trinovantes). Copper alloy unit, attribution uncertain. Worn and largely illegible.
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.