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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B8190D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A complete Medieval to Post Medieval gilt silver hat badge (dress hook) dating to circa AD 1500-1550. It consists of a discoidal plate with recessed panel and separately made soldered S-shape hook projecting from the reverse. The S-shaped hook tapers into a point and is now flattened. The plate contains a border of two concentric circles of moulded twisted rope design. The interior has a recessed circular cell which would have carried incised decoration but is now very heavily worn and this cannot be discerned with clarity. There are possibly two opposed initials or …
Created on: Friday 27th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F90104
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy trade token farthing issued by Benjamin Mills of Lavenham, Suffolk in 1657. 0bv. BENJAMIN . MILLS . 0F = 1657. Rev. LAVENHAM . 1657 = . M . // B A Williamson (1967, 1090) writes 'the will of Robert Ryece, a great preserver of Suffolk antiquities, is dated 1637. By it he gives to William Mills, of Lanham, in the county of Suffolk, painter and glazier, 40s., with some boxes of painting colours for to keep, renew, and amend the tables, writings, and inscriptions as they are fixed in the parish church of Preston, in Suffolk. A Mr. William Mills resided in the…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D99974
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of middle Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy (bronze) brooch of Elmsett type (Weetch type 16). Originally cross-shaped, only one flaring arm now survives. It has concave sides to the arm, the more complete arm curving increasingly tightly around a cut-out which is therefore more oval than circular. The end of the arm is convex. The fragment has two circular holes; one is smaller (1.6mm diameter) and is in the centre of the arm within a reserved circle. The other is larger (2.7mm diameter) and closer to the edge of the arm, so close that it has now broken through the edge of the brooch.…
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-73B0B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman rear hook Colchester derivative brooch. The head is incomplete, only part of one wing surviving. This surviving section is decorated with a wide transverse flute. The reverse of the head is concave and the remains of a rear-facing hook projects from the centre of its upper edge. The bow is a flattened D-shape in cross-section, curved in profile and tapering towards a rounded break at its lower end. The outer face of the bow is decorated with two widely spaced, parallel, longitudinal ribs running down the centre. The lower bow, foot and catch-plate are …
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-73954F
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy unidentified object of uncertain date. The main body of the object is ring-shaped with rounded outer edges and a hole c.10.5mm in diameter through the centre. One face is decorated with two concentric rings of small incised triangles, some possibly containing traces of enamel of uncertain colour. Projecting from one side is a small bluntly pointed knop, its outer face decorated with a notch running inwards from each side creating a zoomorphic appearance. Projecting from the opposite side is a longer tapering cylindrical knop, pierced with a circular hole throug…
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2AB7C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver medieval penny of Edward I, dating to the year AD 1280. Class 3a. Minted in London. North vol.II, no.1016
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A043A4
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy middle to late Bronze Age socketed spearhead. The blade is flame-shaped with a pronounced lozenge-shaped mid-rib extending to the tip. To either side the blade is flattened and slightly bevelled along both edges. Only a small part of the lozenged cross-sectioned inner socket survives. The metal is a dark-green in colour with a pitted and corroded patina. Without the full socket the object cannot be further assigned to a type and only a broad mid to late Bronze Age date can be suggested. The object is small in size, but not unusually so for a spearh…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A02831
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver medieval penny of Henry V, dating to the period AD 1413-22. Class C. Minted in London. North vol.II, no.1396
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F36856
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver medieval penny of Edward III, dating to the period AD 1327-35. Uncertain class and mint.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F36577
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver medieval halfpenny of Henry VI (first reign), dating to the period AD 1430-4. Pinecone-mascle issue, Uncertain initial mark. Minted in Calais. North vol.II, no.1469.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F3612B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy post-medieval token of John Brenn of Ipswich. Obv: IOHN . BREN[N] = The Prince of Wales's feathers and coronet Rev: [IN] . IPSWICH . 1659 = B/IM Williamson 1967, 1084, no.164
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F35BE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler, dating to the period AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F350F8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper alloy medieval harness mount. The mount its shield-shaped, its outer face decorated with three raised pierced cinquefoils against a red (gules) enamelled field. A square cross-sectioned attachment lug extends from the centre of the reverse of the mount. Harness pendants, mounts and similar equipment were in use from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types like this one predominating in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Griffiths, 1995,62). This heraldic device is also seen on a mount from Spixworth, Norfolk …
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 30th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BB3355
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold object of uncertain date, but possibly Iron Age or early Roman. It consists a length of thick gold wire (now rather twisted and distorted) of circular section with a knopped globular terminal at each end. Identification is uncertain, although it is likely to be an item of personal adornment such as a bracelet. The original length/diameter of the object is uncertain due to heavy distortion but has been estimated at 130mm; the terminals are c. 2.66mm in diameter and the midpoint of the wire 1.42mm thick. It weighs 3.96g. Although this object is difficult to par…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 4th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-ED3724
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and somewhat distorted silver hammered penny struck for Henry V, dating c. 1413-1422. Withers' type 5bii or 5biii, broken annulets by crown. Initial mark, plain cross, mint of London. North 1409.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-ED0996
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and broken silver hammered light coinage groat struck for Edward IV's first reign, dating c. 1464-1470. Quatrefoils by neck, initial mark; uncertain/crown, mint of London. Types VII-IX. C.f North nos. 1570-1575.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C71919
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast lead-alloy groat sized Boy Bishop token dating to the late Medieval or early Post-Medieval period, c. 1470-1539. This token is probably of Rigold's series XI, 'uninscribed Ely series'. Obverse: stylised Bishop's mitre and crozier within inner border. Reverse: long cross quartering token, three pellets in each angle within inner border. C.f Rigold 1978, pl. XI, figs. K and I.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DE557B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded Late Saxon openwork strap-end, socketed rectangular plate with twin copper alloy rivets at attachment-end, transverse line of three circular perforations above slight twin transverse ribs at springing of four bars (three rectangular apertures) ending in a transverse bar at the terminal. Length 33mm. Width 25.5mm. 5mm thick. c.975 - c.1100. Similar pieces, with two or three apertures have been recorded elsewhere in Norfolk at Attleborough (HER 29896), Barton Bendish (HER 17212), Burnham Market (HER 18496), Costessey (HER 5352 con. 6), East Walton (HER 29273), Gri…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CC2C55
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy openwork strap-end, rectangular plate, split with twin rivet holes with copper alloy rivets at attachment edge with bordering rib, broad transverse rib at springing of four bars ending in a transverse bar of rounded sub-rectangular section projecting beyond sides at the terminal. Length 26mm. Width 21.5mm. 7mm thick. Weighs 16.69g. c.975 - c.1100.  Similar pieces, with two or three apertures have been recorded elsewhere in Norfolk at Attleborough (HER 29896), Barton Bendish (HER 17212), Burnham Market (HER 18496), Costessey (HER 5352 con. 6), East Wal…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded.