Record ID: SF-4424E5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete hone stone of uncertain date. It is formed from a grey schist and terminates in old breaks towards its base. The hone is triangular in form and section, with flattened and slightly rounded suspension end and flaring base. At the suspension end is a drilled central circular aperture that is slightly wider in diameter on one face than the other. The two wider faces of the hone demonstrate signs of use-wear and become substantially thinner towards the old breaks probably as a result of extended periods of usage. This object measures 42.99mm in length, 16.68mm in width, 9.3…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-469FF2
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hone stone, of possible Anglo-Saxon to Medieval date. It is approximately rectangular, 41.79mm in length and 14.54mm in width tapering to one terminal. This is worn with rounded edges but broken off at the tip, and is perforated with a circular hole 6mm from the terminal edge. The hone is 5.4mm in thickness here, but tapers to 2.3mm at the opposite terminal, the edge of which is also worn.Both sides have been worn smooth. The hone weighs 4.37g. Hones of this type were for personal use and were perforated in order to suspend them from a leather belt. Examples are known from Viking …
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6604
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thick flat circular copper-alloy weight, 20 mm in diameter and 7 mm thick. A thick brown surface patina is occasionally broken to show bright green corrosion beneath. There are purposeful markings on both faces, consisting of a variety of short straight grooves and scratches set at a variety of angles, which are hard to interpret. It weighs 17.02g (0.6 avoirdupois oz, 0.56 troy oz, 10.94 dwt, 262.6 grains). Although it is not obviously of any particular date, odd copper-alloy weights can be found in the Viking period, and so it has been tentatively dated to then.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-8F90A4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A weight or whorl of globular form with a central hole, apparently made of a ceramic material which now has the appearance of soft, whitish stone. The diameter is 23mm, the thickness 13mm, and the gauge of the hole 8mm. The object overall is subspherical and slightly irregular in form. It may be a spindle-whorl, but if so it is a very small one. If it had some other use as a pendant weight, it shows no sign of wear through motion against a string or thrum passing through the hole. the walls of the perforation are quite straight-sided.
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thrandeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-334CE5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 23.3mm diameter and 18.5mm in height with a weight of 40.29g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing. The flat ends of the weight appear to have stamped decoration on them consisting of two concentric circles of small circular motifs. There is a trace of someting else within these boarders but what it was is no longer visible due to wear and corroded iron. A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states tha…
Created on: Wednesday 18th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laxfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-042327
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 22mm diameter and 17.4mm in height with a weight of 39.21g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing. Both of the flat ends of the weight have traces of stamped decoration on them consisting of a border of small circles, within which there is a motif which is now unclear but may be a swastika with pellet terminals. A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce …
Created on: Wednesday 15th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-907EF3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone spindle whorl of probable Anglo-Saxon date. Conical in shape measuring 29mm in diameter and 15mm in height. The central perforation is circular and 8mm in diameter. The stone is a creamy light brown in colour. There is a pair of circumferencial grooves around the centre of this spindle whorl and another two set closer together along its wider edge. Bone and ceramic spindle whorls also with decorative circumference grooves are known from Anglo-Saxon sites elsewhere in Suffolk, e.g. West Stow.
Created on: Friday 22nd April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-10BC84
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon weight. This weight is of the type known as polyhedral or cubo-octahedral, and is cube-shaped with its corners cut off. It measures 8mm by 8mm in size. Every face of the weight has two parallel rows of three ring-and-dot indentations and a border of small straight incisions. This weight is 3.85g, which is unusual as the Viking weight system is usually between 24g and 26.6g, however it could possibly be a one sixth weight. These weights date from the mid 9th to mid 10th century and are common in Scandinavia.
Created on: Friday 25th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'herringswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9B2FA3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A very unusual possible lead weight. It is circular in shape with a diameter of 17mm and a thickness of 7mm. Slightly off centre on one face there is a lattice work indentation, which is circular in outline with a diameter of 11.5mm. No parallel could be found for this object but it seems most likely that it functioned as a weight of some sort. Its date is unknown but it seems most likely to be medieval, or possibly even late early medieval, as this lattice design was used during this period.
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4C6381
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a neatly-formed lead weight of tapered octagonal proportions with a cast-in lug on the summit for suspension. It is 26.5mm high overall, being 15mm square at the base and 11.0 square at the top of the sides below the lug. The object is essentially of tapered square form with heavily chamfered rising edges. It probably has an intended actual weight, which is presently measurable at 1.059 oz, 0.965ozt, 150.1ct and 80.05mom. The pierced lug, which is 4mm thick in the pierced dimension and 7mm broad, contains soil which may account for the very slight excess of weight over the ounc…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CCD5D3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight, circular in plan, measuring 22.4mm in diameter and 8mm in thickness. The underside of this weight is flat and the upper face has a circular recess c15.3mm in diameter. Within this recess there are faint traces of lettering which is unintelligible due to wear. To one side of the lettering there is also a deep straight grooves, c5mm in length. The date of this weight is unknown and no parallel could be found, it could date from the early medieval to the post medieval periods.
Created on: Wednesday 25th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glemsford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9421
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A circular lead weight measuring 18mm in diameter and 4mm in thickness, both faces flat. The top face has a rectangular strip of copper-alloy lying across it, this strip measures 13mm in length and 7mm in width; the remains of gilding can be seen on it. It seems that this strip of copper-alloy may perhaps be covering some sort of decoration on the lead as there appears to be a semi-circular groove with a circular dot in its centre which disappears beneath the strip. The back face is undecorated. This weight may be Viking in date, the Vikings arrived in East Anglia in 866AD and fl…
Created on: Friday 18th October 2002
Last updated: Friday 8th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0B2844
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early/Middle/Late Saxon weight, circular with central ring-and-dot within eight ring-and-dots around border on upper face, sides with facetted chamfer to smaller base, weighs 3.79g, 0.1260oz, 55.0 grains. Although almost certainly belonging somewhere within the Early to Late Saxon periods, this weight does not conform to any units recorded in Scull (1990) or Kruse (1992).
Created on: Monday 29th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton (Near Bungay)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-073EB6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy weight of uncertain date. It is biconical in form with flattened top and bottom surfaces that have worn dark green/brown patina. There is no surviving evidence of any decoration. It measures 22.48mm in diameter, 9.74mm in thickness and 23.66g in weight. Similar biconical copper-alloy weights are recorded and dated to the late Early-Medieval/Viking period (see for example NLM-9F1D64, LIN-1454F1, IOW-4F6604 or LIN-0E64A2 on the PAS database; cf Egan, 1998: 309). The current example at just under 24g finds parallels in the Viking Ora (c.24.4g) weight standard and su…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-49AA4A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy early medieval polyhedral weight. It takes the form of a small, solid, irregularly shaped tetradecahedron with six lozenge shaped faces and eight triangular faces. All of the lozenge shaped faces are decorated with six incised dots around the outside edge and two lines of three dots in the centre. The triangular faces simply have a line of dots around the outside. A number of similar weights have now been recorded on the PAS database, most from the heartland of the Danelaw (e.g.LIN-752A9C and SWYOR-66F71D). The number of dots on each side is thought to represent a …
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4B1547
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and heavily restored late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. It is biconical in form with flattened top and bottom surfaces. The weight has the remains of an iron core surrounded by a largely incomplete and heavily repaired/restored copper-alloy casing. On the flattened top and bottom surfaces the casing has stamped decoration. This comprises at least two rectilinear motifs formed from parallel transverse grooves from which at either and and at the centre extend short vertical and curvilinear strokes. These motifs appear almost like crowns stacked one above the other, al…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxmundham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-57B6A3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead Early Medieval weight, dating to AD 700-850. It is conical and it has possibly a hole running through its longitudinal axis. See a parallel on PAS: LIN-376341. Cf. Rogerson (in EAA 74, 1995, p. 68, fig. 50, no. 128) Diameter: 15.22 mm Height: 14.13 mm Weight: 13.88 g
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-580AC2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron core in copper-alloy casing Early Medieval weight, dating to AD 850-1066. It is spherical with two opposite flat faces. One face has a circular sunken line decorated with a series of punched annulets; the opposite flat face might have had the same decoration, but the iron corrosion has burts through the copper-alloy coating and covers large part of the surface. Cf. Rogerson (in EAA 74, 1995, p. 69, fig. 52, no. 136). See a parallel on PAS: NMS-8BB723 Diameter: 24.23 mm Height: 17.83 mm Weight: 40.51 g
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-47288F
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy weight of probable Early Medieval to Medieval date, c. 500-1500. It is sub-conical, with a flattened circular base and small central circular aperture which extends through the entire object. Preserved in fair condition with a creamy grey patina, it stands 15.57mm high, 16.61mm in diameter at its base, and weighs 22.81g.
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-47D0F5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead-alloy weight (possibly a loom-weight) of probable Early Medieval to Medieval date, c. 500-1500. It demonstrates a circular base and overall sub-conical form, with a large central circular aperture that extends through the whole object. Preserved in fair condition with an uneven greyish patina, it measures 28.16mm in diameter at its base, stands 21.10mm high, and weighs 57.30g.
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.