Record ID: SF-0DE35E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman buckle, dating to AD 350-450. The frame is moulded into two dolphin heads facing each other, with their mouths slightly open. Between their mouths there is an sub-oval element, probably moulded into a human mask. The animal head have two crests, which taper and flatten on the way down to the rest of the body; the lower end of the head is marked by two transverse raised lines. The tails of the dolphins curl inwards facing each other forming two opposite scrolls. The lower edge of the tails have two integrally cast lugs, which are set at right angle to th…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9CD218
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman to Early Medieval buckle frame, dating to AD 350-450. It consists of a D-shaped frame in plan with an oval cross-section and bevelled edges. The front face of the outside edge of the frame is moulded in the shape of two confronted animals; the open jaws of the animals meets at the centre of the outer edge were there is an integral cast element which has an engraved lozenge-shaped line. On the top of the heads there are two pricked ears rendered by two rounded knops with engraved lines. The animals have a ring-and-dot eye and a line of engraved dots runn…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horringer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9573
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle and plate. The buckle frame is oval, measuring 31mm in length and 18mm in width, and has a decorated notch on its outer edge; the decoration consists of two raised rectangles either side of the notch, with diagonal grooves within them. The pin of the buckle is missing and the bar is offset and narrowed. The folded sheet plate is complete and attached to the bar. It is rectangular, 29mm in length and 20mm in width, it has two rivets, one in either corner nearest the attachment end, it is decorated on its front with a double incised rectangular border with five dia…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2002
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST GENEVIEVE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7892
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pin from an annular buckle, made from cast copper alloy and missing just over half of its loop. There is a small moulding at the junction of the loop and shaft; the shaft is rectangular in cross-section, and hardly tapers at all to its end, which may be broken. There is no evidence of a cutaway area on the underside of the tip. Surviving length 31.5 mm, surviving 'thickness' of loop 6 mm, width of pin 3 mm. A very short example, yet not slender.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2002
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5492
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy buckle frame with integral plate. The frame is oval and 28 mm wide, with a large straight roll-moulding along the outer edge which projects a little to either side. In the centre of this moulding is a grooved pin rest. The plate is straight-sided and very slightly flaring from the junction with the frame. It has a pin hole and two complete rivet holes, all blocked with iron corrosion, and is broken at two further rivet holes. The break is old and worn. There are a lot of rivet holes for so short a length of plate (c. 15 mm) and the two iron rivets may possibly be re…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2001
Last updated: Monday 15th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-274FD2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, double-oval with narrowed central bar, pin missing, 22 x 19mm.
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2006
Last updated: Monday 15th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-273E36
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy buckle plate, corroded, rectangular, attachment end pierced by two rivet-holes, one containing dome-headed rivet, the other with secondary iron replacement rivet (retaining back part), other end broken across loops where folded widthways and recessed for frame and with pin-slot, decorated with the head of a ?bear with engraved details of eye, mouth, snout and fur, on an enamelled field, small fragment of black (or dark blue) enamel survives, 36 x 18mm. Cf. similar but un-enamelled type in Dress Access. (2002), fig.72, no.500. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2006
Last updated: Monday 15th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A828CD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy double loop treapezoidal 17th century buckle. Description: The buckle is a flat and roughly symmetrical with a hour glass shaped openwork plate. The plate is roughly divided into two sections of similar shape. The buckle has a central double looped trapezoidal shaped frame with flanking openwork elements formed from two circles either side of a square. One end has slight outer knops the other terminates in a break likely originally finishing in more decorative wide openwork element (see DEV-A96F91) The frame is worn and the surface slightly pitted …
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-96B535
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy buckle frame with integral plate of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. The buckle frame is oval shaped in form, the inner edge of the frame/bar curving inwards to give an almost kidney shape. At the centre of the bar is an oval shaped perforation through which is a cast copper-alloy pin that is rectangular in form and square in section, tapering to a down curving point that extends beyond the outer edge of the frame. The integral plate is triangular in form, tapering towards the open end. It has prominent triangular shoulders and at the open end has an integral cir…
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E596EC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver buckle of early medieval date. The buckle loop is 'D' shaped and circular in section, with a silver tongue wrapped around the strap bar. The loop is attached to a rectangular plate comprising a piece of sheet metal wrapped around the strap bar with a central rectangular cut-out for the tongue. The terminal end is pierced by two parallel rivet holes, one of which still houses a silver circular-sectioned dome-headed rivet with a gold beaded wire collar.
Created on: Monday 12th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9259
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy fragment from a cast partly openwork object. Although now concave in one direction at the back it has clearly been bent and would have originally been flat or nearly so. Two side bars, 5mm wide and D-section, are both broken at one end. The linking part expoands in the centre to encompass an open 4-lobed motif with a shell-shape above; incised lines on the shell shape are now very worn. The side bars end with a broad 2-lobed and facetted terminal; the two sides are slightly asymetric. The most likely function for this object is the outer half of a large trapezoidal buckle…
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2002
Last updated: Friday 3rd January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRESSINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AEA143
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy buckle with integral plate, of Medieval date (probably 14th century). It has a D-shaped frame similar to Meols type 4, with pointed triangular pin rest, slightly offset bar and projecting knops to either side of the frame. The integral plate is a long rectangle in shape, with a lozenge-shaped terminal end separated from the plate by projecting transverse ridges. The plate has faceted edges and a central perforation that is almost keyhole-shaped, with a larger circular area at the terminal end extending towards the frame. At the outer edge of the terminal end the te…
Created on: Friday 30th October 2009
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7362
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval with an offset (but not narrowed) bar and an ornate moulding along the outer edge. The bar has a distinct off-centre thickening, which looks as if it is the result of deliberate manufacture rather than wear. This thickening would have kept the two loops of a buckle plate in place. The moulding on the outer edge is 5 mm wide and has symmetrical decoration which continues around both front and reverse. In the centre is a transverse ridge to either side of the pin rest; then comes a groove, then an area which is incurved externally to make a corner project…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E0C8F1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, Length: 34 mm, width: 39 mm, thickness: 14 mm, weight: 36.26 grams. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section and takes the form of a backwards facing dog or lion. It has a thin body with pronounced shoulders and thighs. When viewed from above it has a series of ridges running down the centre of its rounded head. These may continue down its neck and onto the front of its body (or it may be damage?) It has a tail with bushy terminal, which runs between its hind legs and across its body and into its mouth, before turning to point ba…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF4474
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Buckle in the form of a three-dimensional animal head with wide open mouth. It consists of a hollow cylinder, slightly tapering from 13 to 11.5 mm wide, with an open narrow end cut into two V shapes to form the mouth. The cylinder has been flattened on the reverse, but on the front and sides is decorated with two zones of longitudinal grooves separated by a moulding or step. There are 15 grooves at the wider end and 14 towards the narrower end, and each has been made by rocking a graver to and fro. There is a further transverse moulding beyond the longitudinal grooves at the wider end…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MENDLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-782CD4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast opper-alloy Roman buckle of Augustan to Hadrianic date, circa 27 BC to 138AD, very similar to examples from Hod Hill, and Velsen (Bishop and Coulston, 1993, 96-97, fig 59, no 15 and 19). This buckle is military and of Early Roman, pre-Flavian, date. Parallels can be found in Grew and Griffiths,1991. Early Roman, c. AD 43-96. The buckle has a D-shaped frame and is 46.04mm in width and 41.77mm in length. The inner edge has inwards curving terminals and there is a rectangular double moulding below each one with an integral loop set at right angles, these loops allowed the frame to…
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 30th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barking', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10816
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle frame of c. 14th-century date. This frame is square in shape measuring 22mm by 22mm in size. The perforation is D-shaped and the bar narrowed and straight. The outer edge is wider and has a central groove for the missing pin on one face. The outer edge is decorated with four 'teeth' or U-shaped grooves too. File marks are clearly visible on both faces of this buckle. In both form and module this buckle can be compared with an example found in Toulouse published by Barrere (1990, 220; no. 452).
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2003
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ST MARGARET SOUTH ELMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F8871A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle frame of possible Late Roman date. It has a D-shaped loop that is triangular in cross-section, with slight triangular projections on each side where the frame curves to an integral plate. These projections are perhaps intended to be stylised zoomorphic motifs, although this is uncertain. The integral plate is reatcngular in form with a central sub-rectangular pin hole, and single circular rivet holes at each corner of the attachment end. On the front face of the plate is decoration comprising two parallel grooves running the length of the attachment end, from whi…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thelnetham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7340
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Extremely corroded spur buckle. It has an elongated oval frame with a small point at the pin rest. The integral plate begins with a rounded lobe which has a pin hole with the remains of an iron pin. A second heart-shaped lobe has an integral rivet on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Sunday 2nd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7902
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped buckle frame, one loop large and oval and the other small and rectangular. The large oval loop is 29.5 mm wide and is an angled oval in cross-section. It has a grooved pin rest on the outer edge. The bar has a pin constriction on which a copper-alloy pin survives; the pin has a transverse moulding on its upper face at the junction of the loop and the shaft. The smaller rectangular loop is 19 mm wide and would have had the strap fixed around its outer edge. The buckle is similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 472, from a 15th-century context.
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.