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Record ID: SF-836383
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 body sherds of early medieval ware, 11-12th century in date. 2 body and 1 base sherd of shelly early medieval ware, 12-13th century in date. 2 rim and 10 body sherds of medieval coarseware, 12th-14th century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-034860
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy object, probably a fragment from the handle or leg of a vessel. It is roughly rectangular in form, trapezoidal in cross-section, flaring at one end to a flattened and incomplete terminal, and at the other to old breaks surrounding a hollow/concave back(?) face that is perhaps a casting flaw. The entire object has a worn dark green/brown patina and measures 75.33mm in length, 28.39mm in width, 15.25mm in thickness, and 111.39g in weight. This is probably a fragment from a copper-alloy vessel, perhaps a handle or leg from a cooking vessel. Its precise date …
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-159A7E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy vessel mend or rivet of Medieval date. It is formed from a single lozenge shaped sheet that is folded twice to create a simple rivet. The object measures 26.68mm in length, 13.96mm in width, 3.07mm in thickness, and weighs 2.90g. This vessel mend is of Medieval date, with parallels noted from London (Egan, 1998: no. 489) suggesting a 13th or 14th century AD date.
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-1AA16D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two rim sherds from cast copper-alloy cooking vessels of Medieval to early Post-Medieval date. One is out-turned to an angle of approximately 45 degrees, the other thickened and slightly flaring. They have a combined total weight of 58.59g and are of c.14th-16th century AD date.
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF2299
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary cast copper alloy object consisting of a bar with a central thickened section with a raised central rectangle. The bar is flattened at both ends. There is one flat section with lateral knops behind a breakage. The other end may represent the stubs of a broken attachment loop.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3598
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy and iron. It is flattish and consists of a disc with a long pointed projection. The disc is 16 mm in diameter and mainly composed of iron, with a depression in the centre which may once have been a perforation. Around the edge of the disc, at least on one face, is a short length of copper alloy which curves around and then projects out to end in what may be a relief animal head. The poor condition of the object means that it is hard to decide even if the animal head is in profile or full-face; it is just possible that it has been subjecte…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7C0F76
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a lead object of unknown date. It is an oval shape 30.16mm in length and 22.95mm in width, and 7.2mm in thickness. There is an additional, smaller oval in the centre, which projects for a further 3.75mm. The lead is encased in sheet copper alloy on the sides, and the lead is exposed on the top and bottom surfaces. The copper alloy shows a dark green corrosion product, and large parts of it are gilded. It weighs 46g. The object is possibly the base for a small statuette.It could be or Roman or medieval or later date.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7399
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is L-shaped, 29 mm long, with one arm measuring 15 mm wide at the corner and tapering to 9 mm wide at the top. This arm is thick and solid, tapering from 5.5 mm thick at the junction with the other arm to 3 mm thick at the narrower end. It is decorated with a double transverse ridge on both faces, and another (now very worn) at the narrow end. Running along the bottom of this part, and extending to form the other arm of the L, are two parallel bars forming a slot. Beyond the end of the solid arm the slot is open at both edges, and one …
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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-2C9E37
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy arm from a pair of tweezers, of Roman or Anglo-Saxon date. It is triangular in shape, with the arm flaring to one terminal, where it measures 8.13mm in width, and turns in at an angle of forty five degrees. It is broken off at the opposite terminal before the loop, and is 3.48mm wide. Two zones of incised line decoration can be seen, close to this terminal, one of four lines and one of three, and both have traces of gilding. The extant length of tweezer arm is 34.13mm, and it weighs 0.96g.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-866FA8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy halfpenny token of the Hibernian Mining Company, c.1792-1797 AD. Obverse: CAM[AC KYAN] AND [CA]MAC, The cypher HMCo with HALFPENNY below. Reverse: INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, Hibernia seated left resting left arm on a harp, the date 17[] in exergue. Inscription around the edge of the token reads PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR [BAL]LYMU[RT]AG[H].
Created on: Friday 15th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF2297
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3847
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Boy bishop token.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2000
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7394
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Boy bishop token.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2001
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-35E398
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy post-medieval token farthing issued by Thomas Hudson of Woolpit. Williamson (1967, 1105) writes: 'the Crown is now the present chief inn. Thomas Hudson was one of the feoffees living in 1668, charged with the government of an almshouse for poor people, founded according to the will of Sir Robert Gardener, knight, in 1614, at Elmswell, adjoining Woolpit'. OBV:*THOMAS . HVDSON - A crown REV: IN . WOLPIT . 1664 - T H Williamson 1967, 1105, no.372 Diameter: 15.29mm, thickness: 0.85mm, weight: 0.83g
Created on: Friday 30th October 2015
Last updated: Friday 30th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thelnetham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8DB3F6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead token of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.14th-16th centuries AD. Almost half of the token is missing due to old breaks. Obverse: A legend formed from wavy lines with pellets, a central pellet surrounded by four annulets with central pellets, all within an inner circle. Reverse: Legend formed from wavy/S-shaped lines. Long cross dividing the legend, three pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
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: SF-0BD088
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny size lead Boy Bishop token of Rigold series X C (Rigold, 1978: pp. 98), c.1470-1539 AD. Obverse: Pseudo-legend of strokes?, A mitre and crozier within an inner circle. Reverse: Legend formed of broken scrolls. A long cross fourchee dividing the legend, three pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0BEA71
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny size lead Boy Bishop token of Rigold series X C (Rigold, 1978: pp. 98), c.1470-1539 AD. Obverse: Pseudo-legend of strokes?, A mitre and crozier within an inner circle. Reverse: No legend. A long cross fourchee dividing the legend, three pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-1AE530
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy trader's token of Post-medieval date. The obverse reads G.Goodhew/Offten Court/Suffolk. The reverse reads 1s/-
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.