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Record ID: SF-54734B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch detachable side knob. It is half round, with a slot and hole for pin on the base. It is semi-oval in cross section. It has a lozenge shaped dome, tapering into a waist before terminating in the base. Due to its half round shape, it conforms to Cruciform Brooch Phase B, dating to 475-550AD (Martin, 2015, pg 128).
Height: 15.85mm
Diameter: 8.31mm
Weight: 5.57g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-42B58D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cruciform, dating to AD 420-480. The foot is missing. The head plate is rectangular and has an integral full rounded top knop; the latter has a domed head, a waist and a base, which extends outwards on the front face. The head plate has bevelled sides and has the same width as the arched bow protruding from its lower edge; its back face has a pierced semi-circular tab which is blocked by a fragment of the iron axis-bar; a fragment of the spring and iron corrosion products are encrusted around the…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-2C098E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy disc brooch of Early-Medieval date. It is missing a small part of the plate and pin due to old breaks. The brooch has a flat circular plate with openwork and moulded decoration, although corroded. This comprises a central cross-shaped motif with central lozenge shaped panel and circular perforations in each quadrant. At the centre of the lozenge is a slightly raised conical boss. The outer edge of the brooch, whilst corroded, suggests 'teeth' around the edge. On the back face of the plate is an integrally cast transverse semi-circular pin lu…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-2B7C38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) nummular brooch. Discoidal in plan and flat the front face is decorated with a human figure holding a staff and with a crown, sat on a bench holding a figure, either a child or animal, within a border of raised pellets or beads. This brooch fits a group of late Saxon disc brooches which copy, or appear to copy coinage of the period see Weetch (2013:15-16 fig no176,179), with the variants being divided by whether they copy obverse or reverse designs. To the reverse is an intergral pin and catchplate, which are …
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Walsham-le-Willows', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-4769EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) Type 2.2.4 of Martin Cruciform brooch type B - AD475-550 (Martin, 2015, pg29, 37, 38 (fig 14) and 128). Only the foot of the brooch survives with an old break across the upper end of the flat panel. Only half the catchplate survives to the reverse of the rectangular flat panel. Above the head is the half-round panel which has moulded transverse grooves. It is defined by a zoomorphic section moulded to look like the head of an animal, probably a horse, with small projecting pellet eyes to either…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-045F93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment copper-alloy equal-armed brooch of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. Only the terminal end survives. The terminal is flat, triangular in form and missing parts of its outer edges due to old breaks. There is no evidence of decoration on the front plate. On the back face is a single D-shaped pin lug with circular aperture. It is 22.15mm in length, 32.91mm wide and 11.36mm in thickness, weighing 8.12g.
This is an incomplete equal-armed brooch. It is similar to those known as the 'Anglian' type, seen as having Scandinavian influence …
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-04053E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. The head plate is incomplete missing the top projection and left side knob, roughly trefoil-shaped consisting of a central square with a D-shaped section projecting to the side with a notch to the side behind it. The outer face of the central section is decorated with a raised square while the D-shaped section is decorated with longitudinal lines engraved. In the centre of the reverse of the head there is a sub-rectangular pin lug covered with heavy iron corrosion from the now…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-63B4EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy late early medieval disc brooch, flat and circular in shape, which would have orginally been enamelled and has a cross motif, formed of shallow pits, on the front face. The pin lug with a fragment of corroded iron from the pin survives on the back face and a fragment is missing from the edge due to old breaks. This brooch is most similar to Weetch type 18 A, which are dated to the 9th-10th centuries and had champleve enamel, in this case now missing, the decoration is of Weetch cross type iii, being a cross with expanding arms and bulb-shaped intersti…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-7DB528
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) supporting arm brooch or Stützarmfibel. The head is a flattened rectangular shape with incomplete circular lugs projecting from either end of the reverse. The upper end of the bow expands to the full width of the head where they join leaving a only a small recess along the upper edge of the outer face of the head. The rest of the upper and middle bow is uniform in size, D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face and strongly curved in profile. Across the lower end of the outer face of the bow there is a raised flat&nbs…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-7D9469
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. At the head there is a trefoil-shaped plate consisting of a central rectangular section with a D-shaped projection to either side, each with a notch to either side behind it creating a constriction. A further D-shaped section would have projected from the outer end originally, but this is now missing. To the reverse there is the inner remains of a single lug pin fitting. The upper part of the bow projects downwards from the lower edge of the head. This is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat rev…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-17BB93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small-long brooch dating to circa AD 450-500. The piece is virtually complete save for the missing pin. The head plate is flat and rectangular. The arms are broadly in the form of an elongated crescent. The front face of the headplate is decocorated with two parallel incised grooves running along the edge. The edge of the trefoils are decorated two parallel incised transverse grooves. The bow projects from the lower edge of the headplate. It is plano-convex in cross-section and curved. Its underside is concave. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Kenton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-882061
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy ansate brooch dating to circa AD 700-1000. Roughly 60% of the piece survives with part of the body and one terminal missing. It is rectangular in plan and section. The bow consists of a flat central element and is stepped into the terminal. The central element is decorated with two deeply incised longitudinal grooves. The element beneath contains a median arris either side of which are opposed ring and dots. The extant terminal now terminates in old breaks so it is unclear precisely which shape the terminal would have taken, making typological …
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Near Alderton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F34E65
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 sub-lozenge shaped with a straight break across its inner end. Its outer face is decorated with an incised saltire cross-shaped dividing it into four lozenge-shaped cells, each decorated with parallel engraved chevrons. There is evidence that small lobes projected from each of the three outer corners orginally, but two are missing and the remaining one to one side is hardly visible due to corrosion. To the reverse a double lug pin fitting projects still holding a corrode…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F346FC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) probable small-long brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives. This is an expanded patulate or axe-shape with inwards curving sides and outwards curving lower edge. There is a break where it probably attached to the brooch. There is no evidence of decoration, but the edges are damaged and corroded.
This style of foot appears on several forms of small-long brooch (and on the later Anglian equal-arm brooch, but these are less common). Penn and Brugmann (2007) place the small-long brooches within their phas…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F33F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives, making it difficult to identify the type. The foot terminal is a narrow spatulate shape with inwards curving sides and straight lower edge and curves inwards slightly when viewed in profile. Above this on the outer face there is a raised panel, D-shaped in cross-section, its outer face decorated with multiple transverse grooves and above this a narrow, undecorated section that expands very slightly towards its upper end where there is an abrupt break where …
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F33735
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives with a well worn break across its upper end. This terminal of this is zoomorphic in decoration and slightly tapering towards the tip. The outer face of the terminal is decorated with a semi-circular moulding to either side of the tip producing the effect of nostrils and above this, at the widest point of the terminal, there is a pellet-like eye to either side. Across the inner end of the terminal there is a raised panel, D-shaped in cross-section, its outer face d…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-8E1266
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilded copper alloy Early Medieval Great Square Headed Brooch, Group IV Phase 1 GSHBs (Hines). Leeds Group A3 (a) and (b) The brooch has a rectangular head, concavo-convex mid-bow element and a rectangular plate flanked by lappets or side lobes; twin lugs with corroded iron spring behind the head and a missing catch plate. The foot of the brooch has broken off. The head plate has an outer zone with triangular punch marks, which extends into the interior to mark off a rectangular inner zone from the outer border. The outer borde…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SF-0D7939
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable Early Medieval cruciform/small long brooch dating to circa AD 450-550. The extant piece consists of the lower bow and foot. The bow is rectangular in plan and curved in profile. It is has convex underside and concave front face. At the junction of the bow and foot is a transverse incised groove. The foot is flat and broadly triangular in shape. It is now heavily worn but appears undecorated. Emerging from the reverse of the foot is a broken, flat likely D-shaped catchplate.
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F8E0D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small-long brooch dating to circa AD 450-500. The surviving element consists of a, trefoil head plat and bow. The head plate is flat and rectangular. The arms are broadly in the form of an elongated crescent. Each arm has a triangular knop positioned before the trefoil terminal. The front face of the headplate is now heavily worn but appears undecorated. The bow projects from the lower edge of the headplate. It is plano-convex in cross-section and curved. It in. It is decorated with a median longitudinal incised groove…
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Near Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-A36AF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy probable small long or cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 450-550. The extant element element consists of a broken, now rectangular, head plate and bow. The piece is plano-convex in section and the bow is C-shaped. The bow terminates in an ancient break. Emerging from the reverse of the headplate are the remnants of a central D-shaped lug. The piece is now very heavily worn and covered in a green patina.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.
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