Record ID: SF-E8A4D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of late Early-Medieval date. It is missing the pin and the outer edges of the pin lugs due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, circular in form and with relief decoration on the front face. This comprises a double stranded border within which is contained an animal or beast in the Jellinge style. The animal is positioned in a reverse S-shape and has a triangular head with oval shaped eyes and a bulbous open jaw. Extending from the base of the mouth is a double-stranded tongue that interlaces with the body and one leg. The curving neck and body run along o…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CCF226
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead disc or nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its iron pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a cross pattee with central pellet at the centre of the brooch. An inner border formed from double parallel lines with numerous short vertical strokes surrounds the central motif, with a second similar band of decoration forming a border around the outer edge of the brooch. Between the inner and outer borders there is a band of pellets. The flat ba…
Created on: Friday 24th September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E49135
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead brooch of 'hub-cap' type (Weetch type 17), of late Early-Medieval date, probably 10th or 11th century. It is circular, 26.7mm in diameter and 1.25mm thick, with a central circular hole (7.65mm in diameter) surrounded by a raised edge. It weighs 10.08g. There are four evenly spaced raised hollow-backed bosses or domes, 4.44mm in diameter, around the edges, each pushed up from the back of the brooch. There is a small sub-circular hole through the lead between two of the domes. There is a lead loop catchplate on the back of the brooch, and remains of an attachment point for a pin.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3977
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Apparently a lead model for a brooch, which would have been circular and slightly domed. Some of the edges now appear to have been cut off straight, and the maximum surviving diameter is 21 mm. There is no decoration on the convex upper face. The reverse is flat, not hollowed, and has a surviving curled-over lug which looks like a catchplate. No pin lug survives. Perhaps a trial piece or a model which would have been used in the manufacturing process; similar to the small Anglo-Scandinavian domed disc brooches of the tenth century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C76146
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead nummular brooch of late early medieval date, 9th-10th century AD, now incomplete as a fragment of one side is missing due to an old break. It is of Weetch's Type 2.Aii, imitating the reverse of a coin. This brooch is flat and circular, and measures c26.54mm in diameter. The front is worn but decorated with a moulded design. There is a cross in the centre within a circular moulding. There are irregular moulded lines around the border of the brooch which do not make sense as letters, either as they are or when an impression was taken. It therefore seems most likely that they ar…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-88E700
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, circa 900-1100AD, with its pin missing. This brooch is likely to be a nummular brooch and the design ultimately derived from a coin but it is now abstract. It measures 30.1mm in diameter and 3.31mm in thickness. Its front face is decorated with two concentric rings with circular pellets along these at more or less even intervals. within the inner circle there are two lozenge shapes, one inside the other, there is a circular pellet at each corner of the lozenge shapes. Within the inner lozenge shape there is a worn possible cross with a pos…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Renham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-221F20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead object with full-face Style I decoration. The fragment measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width. The reverse is flat and the front has relief decoration of a full-face animal mask, with large rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square-ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the object flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges. This object could be a lead model used in the manufacture of a cast copper-alloy object, or it cou…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-87D275
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small lead or lead alloy fragment which, due to its style, may have been part of a small long Anglo-Saxon brooch, lead Saxon brooches may be models for an early stage of the casting process or copies in a cheaper material. This fragment has a square central panel, c10.7mm by c10.7mm in size, which has a central recessed circle, this is small for a central panel, no copper-alloy parallel with so small a central panel could be found. One wing survives and is crescent shaped, measuring 11.2mm in length and 14.1mm in width. The remains of the other wings and the rest of the brooch ca…
Created on: Monday 14th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-70DB56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a lead early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, measuring 16mm in length and 16mm in width. The fragment consists of part of the head plate and one half-round side knob, which is not detachable. The rest of the brooch is missing and the breaks are old. It is unusual to discover lead early Anglo-Saxon brooches; this brooch could have been used as such or may possibly have been a template or test brooch.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CBDDE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 5. It is circular in shape, measuring 33mm in diameter, it is flat and 1.6mm thick. The front face of this brooch is decorated with eight concentric grooves with a circular knop in the centre of the brooch measuring 3.8mm in diameter. On the back face the integral catch plate and pin attachment, consisting of two opposing oval shaped projections, each with a circular perforation through them to accomodate the now missing pin, are complete. Weetch dates this type to the 10th century.
Created on: Friday 13th February 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9878
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead brooch, circular in shape with a diameter of 23mm. There is a central circular low flat-topped boss on the front, 12mm in diameter; the boss has a scratched X on it, and around the edge of the disc there are further transverse scratched grooves. On the reverse, part of the pin lug and the catch survive; the pin lug is parallel to the edge of the brooch, and the turned-over catchplate is perpendicular to this. This brooch is of Weetch type 13, but as it was originally recorded as medieval it was not included in Weetch's catalogue. It is unusual as being the only Weetch type 1…
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2002
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7796
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead nummular brooch, complete but crumpled and cracked. 31 mm in diameter, it is decorated with concentric rings of ornament. In the very centre is a relief cross with expanded arms, with a small boss in the middle. Around this is a ring of ladder pattern, and then a ring of pellets and another ring of ladder pattern. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug and a catchplate, both of similar size and both squashed nearly flat; the pin when horizontal would run along the same orientation as the central cross. The design of nummular brooches, as the name suggests, is ultimately based on …
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7561
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead brooch. It is flat and circular, 39 mm in diameter, and about half is missing. There is a border consisting of two rings of pellets, which surrounds a relief quatrefoil. Inside this is another quatrefoil, and then a central relief circle. Only one of the foils survives complete, and this has a large pellet between the central circle and the line of the inner quatrefoil. Just inside the border, in some places cutting through the outer quatrefoil, is a ring of small circular perforations. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug, now squashed flat. The design of this br…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CFD522
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead disc or nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. Approximately one quarter of the brooch survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The surviving fragment is flat, with some post-depositional corrosion and was probably originally circular in form. On the back face is an integrally cast flat, rectangular catchplate that is now flattened against the back face of the brooch, the corresponding pin lug now missing due to old breaks. The front face of the plate has moulded decoration that may be considered broadly nummular in form although possibl…
Created on: Friday 10th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C0BC16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast lead object, perhaps a disc or nummular brooch of later Early-Medieval date. A fragment from one side of a flat circular plate survives, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It has decoration on its front face comprising a border containing multiple transverse ribs. Inside the border are two transverse lines with a large projecting pellet at their centre. Either side of the lines the front face has traces of additional moulded decoration but its precise form is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. The reverse is flat and undecorated. It measu…
Created on: Wednesday 1st October 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-758F83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead disc or nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. Approximately one quarter of the brooch survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The surviving fragment is flat, with some post-depositional corrosion and was probably originally circular in form. On the back face is an integrally cast flat, rectangular catchplate, the corresponding pin lug now missing due to old breaks. The front face of the plate has moulded decoration that may be considered broadly nummular in form although now abstract from coin types proper. It comprises an uncertain ce…
Created on: Friday 24th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0E55DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch. Only a small fragment of the outer edge of the disc survives with a single looped lug projecting from the outer edge of the reverse. The outer face is decorated with a faint line of small raised pellets along the outer edge with two parallel lines of small incised squares behind this. The central design is unclear, making it difficult to assign the object to a specific tuype. The object has been bent slightly in profile, the surface is corroded and the breaks show little corrosion. With its flat profile and decorative bor…
Created on: Tuesday 17th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-090A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.