Record ID: SF-3EF036
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
4 fragments of a puddingstone quern of probable Roman date. Puddingstone is distinctive conglomerate containing rounded red flint pebbles within a siliceous matrix, the main sources of which lie in Hertfordshire. Research carried out by Major (2004, 2-4) in Essex suggests that puddingstone rotary querns were produced here from at least 10 AD until around 160 AD and a similar chronology seems likely in Cambridgeshire. 1, Length: 34.14mm; width: 23.61mm; weight: 14.24g  2. Length: 56.35mm; width: 54.24mm; weight: 112.57g  3. Length: 37:00mm…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-598C53
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Roman copper-alloy spoon of Crummy Type 3, consisting of a short length of the stem and a tiny fragment of the bowl, connected at an offset junction. The stem is rectangular, nearly square, in cross-section. When considered from the side, with the concave face of the bowl facing upwards, the stem can be said to taper gently in thickness and expand abruptly in width as it develops into the junction. On the top there is step-up of about a millimetre, and then another, followed by a low rectangular slot or notch, and then arguably two step-downs, now very rounded by wear. At…
Created on: Monday 19th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-749620
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment Roman copper-alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow Spring/double lug brooch dating to circa AD 43-70. It is T-shaped in plan. The extant elements of the brooch consist of the wings and part of the upper bow. The wings are hemispherical and open at the reverse. On the reverse, in the centre, is a double lug with upper and lower circular apertures. The spring mechanism is survived by the chord which runs through the upper aperture of the lug and axis bar the lower. There eight coils arranged in two series of four either side of the lug…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FFF828
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman faience 'melon' bead. It is cylindrical in shape with rounded edges to both faces. Parallel, deep, transverse grooves are positioned around the sides. A circular hole, c.11mm in diameter, runs through the middle, slightly off centre. It has a dark greenish-yellow patina.  See Guido (1978, 100, Types 21 and 22) and Crummy (1983, fig. 32.520-1). Worrell (2015) suggests a 1st to 2nd century date for most. Length: 50.04mm, width: 20.38mm, thickness: 5.66mm, weight: 8.55g
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E726A9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman Colcheser derivate, Harlow CD Ha brooch. Only part of the bow and wings remain. The wings are broken at both ends, and all that remains are the remains of a pierced lug, suggesting it is a probable Colchester Dertivative double pierced lug.  Length: 12.45mm Width: 8.98/mm Weight: 1.24g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-18F8A3
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt badge in the form of a recessed roundel with two concentric circles forming a deep frame, the edges of which are dentillated. The centre of the badge is engraved with a crowned 'I' between two Tudor roses on a hatched background. The reverse of the badge is soldered with a strip of metal which has been broken off at the point where it doubles back forming a looped pin. The relatively small size of the badge and the shape of the pin suggest its function as a hat-badge. Diameter: 25mm Weight: 1.09g Scientific analysis at the British Museum produced a silver content …
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-828F3F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver shilling of William III (AD 1694-1702), Third bust type (AD 1697)  London mint. Spink 2013, number 3505
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-81D0D8
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) sleeve clasp catch-element. It is sub-rectangular in shape and slightly curved in profile. The plate and bar are cast in one piece with the sub rectangular catch-element, within which is a long oval slot, projecting from the centre of a straight front edge. The rectangular plate has a straight outer edge and an integrally cast, narrow, longitudinally positioned bar projecting from the inner edge of the outer face. The outer face of this bar is decorated with two groups of two transverse grooves, creating …
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-AFB227
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead unidentified object. This object is a cast lead ring, oval in shape measuring 13mm in length and 7mm in width externally and 8mm in length and 5mm in width internally. One edge of this ring has a circular lead disc protuding from it, the plane of which is at 90 degrees to the hoop. This disc is rounded on its front face and flat on its back face it is incomplete and c15mm in diameter. It is decorated with a central heart shaped inset of a darker grey lead, which is surrounded with a white chalky material. No parallel could be found for this object but it is most likely to be Me…
Created on: Thursday 26th June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9CCA79
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Elagabalus (AD 218-222), dating to AD 221 (Reece Period 10). P M TR P IIII COS III P P reverse type depicting Sol radiate, half draped, with flying cloak, advancing left and raising right hand, holding whip; star in left field. Mint of Rome. As RIC IV, II part, p. 31, no. 40b.
Created on: Friday 17th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winston', grid reference and parish protected.