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Record ID: NMS-5501D3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small casket key, quite flat and carelessly made. The bow is circular, with a casting flaw leading to an internal thickening opposite the stem. The stem has a collar at the junction with the bow; the bow is oval-section and the pointed tip projects beyond the bit. The bit is rectangular and flat, and has a square cleft cut into the rear edge and two similar clefts cut into the leading edge. 45mm long, bow 15.5mm in diameter, 3mm thick at most. It weighs 5.61g and probably dates to the medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-54A298
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One is shorter than the other and is smoothly polished; the other is much rougher and may have been a central spacer plate rather than a backplate. It is bent and one end is broken. The surviving end is cut into curved shoulders and then a relatively long terminal ending in a quatrefoil. The sheets are joined by a copper-alloy rivet through the quatrefoil. Surviving length 26mm, width 7mm, weight 0.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-51C906
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with incomplete loop. It is shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a point; the corners are now all worn and rounded. The shield (without loop) now measures 29mm long by 26mm wide. The loop is angled slightly forwards, flat on the reverse, and is pierced from side to side with a circular hole; it is now broken through this hole. No trace of any decoration survives on the shield, which is now only 1.5mm thick at most. The surviving total length is 35.5mm and the maximum width, at the broken loop, is 5mm. It weighs 5.58g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EE0583
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded late 11th- or 12th-century copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. It is basically a short, wide rectangle with geometric decoration consisting of three wide flat-topped transverse (vertical) ridges dividing the mount into four gilded fields. These are decorated with closely spaced shallowly oblique grooves, alternating in direction field by field. Hints of grooves and gilding on the edges of the ridges suggest that both types of decoration carried on over them. The edges and corners of the rectangle are now worn and rounded. It is 28.5mm wide, a maximum of 16mm tall a…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-ED4D80
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn copper-alloy buckle of 15th- or 16th-century date. It is shaped like a five-petalled rose, with five long lobes separated by indentations forming a flattish circular frame. It has a central circular-section bar, and the lobes are arranged so that one forms the centre of one outside edge and the opposite outside edge has two meeting at its centre. Brown patina. Width 29mm, length 30mm, thickness of frame 1mm, weight 4.4g.
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NFAHG-C241B0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix with socket, for producing cloth seals (alnage seals). The die itself is circular and 29mm in diameter. In side view, the matrix rises vertically from the die for about 3mm then begins to taper with a slightly concave curve to an open end 19-20mm in external diameter. The matrix is overall 14mm thick and weighs 39.0g. There are two small bumps on the outside, very close to the socket's edge, which are surrounded by iron staining and which may be the remains of iron nails fastening a wooden handle. These are not quite opposite each other; one is above the C …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF9245
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pointed-oval lead seal matrix, seen at Ipswich metal-detecting club. A scan of the matrix was subsequently made available. The seal matrix has a curvilinear central motif which is hard to identify. The inscription has no initial mark, and appears to read S'AMICIE SAILE, although the last part of the surname is uncertain; the IL could alternatively be an N and the E could be a C. The inscription can be translated as Seal of Amice Saile; Amice is a woman's name. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 9th September 2002
Last updated: Sunday 19th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRUNDISH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9213
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three sherds of medieval date. One is medieval coarse ware (12th to 14th century) one glazed Grimston ware (13th to 14th century) and one perhaps Essex red ware (12th to 14th century).
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9215
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval pottery. Eight body sherds of medieval coarse ware, and two body sherds of glazed Grimston ware. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9193
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pommel from a medieval sword or dagger. Viewed from the top it is slightly domed and almost circular, with seven slight facets around the edge forming a heptagon with rounded corners. The maximum 'diameter' is 29 mm. Each of the rounded corners is cut off by a broad V-shaped groove, and from either end of each one a similar groove runs at an angle to the centre. The inner facet of each of the outer grooves has a pair of short oblique lines cut into it, and some of the radiating grooves have a fine zig-zag or series of chevrons along the base. There is a space at the ce…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9194
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy shield-shaped harness mount, now slightly bent and quite worn. The shield is 30 mm long and 24 mm wide with a straight top and sides curving to a point. Three relief lions passant guardant can just be seen on the shield (the arms of England before 1340). Although these were probably reserved and gilded against a red enamel background, none of the gilding or enamel survives. On the reverse is a large tapering integral blunt-ended spike, set at a slight upwards angle; this increases the total thickness to 22 mm. These mounts are very similar to horse-harness pendants and we…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9195
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual object which appears to be an annular brooch. Four sides of an originally hexagonal frame survive, with a D-shaped cross-section; internally the brooch is circular. In the centre of one side is a projecting human head modelled in the round, with hair cut in a square shape to frame the face. The features are strongly and severely modelled, with big relief eyebrows meeting the top of the flattish triangular nose, lower-relief eyes, cheeks and chin, and a line for the mouth. A short neck connects the head to the frame of the brooch, which resembles stylised shoulders and angle…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLUNDESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9197
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork mount, perhaps from a strap. It is basically rectangular, 24 x 17 mm, although now slightly bent. A flat frame runs around the outside, thickened at each corner to take a rivet hole; one rivet hole is now broken (old break). Rising from within this frame is an almost three-dimensional lion. The lion is in profile towards the left, with its head turned to look out of the frame towards the observer. Both hind paws and the lion's left forepaw rest on the base of the frame; the lion's right forepaw stretches towards the left-hand side of the frame. All of …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALBERSWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9180
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a long rod, 3.5 mm square in cross-section and with the corners bevelled; one end is broken and the other end terminates in an animal's head and a junction with a second missing element. There is a gently curving bend both downwards and sideways before the break, which has apparently caused no stress to the metal; it is hard to see if this is original or not, although the fact that the terminal end is also slightly downcurving might indicate that at least part is original. It is perhaps easiest to describe the decoration fro…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9179
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead-alloy pilgrim's badge depicting St Andrew, now bent in half. An upright rectangular plaque, it has a surviving projection at one lower corner that would originally have extended to a stitching loop; the other three corners are broken. St Andrew is in the centre of the plaque, wearing a striped or pleated gown drawn in at the waist; his limbs are splayed as if attached to an X-shaped cross. He faces the observer, but his face is very crude indeed with two large round eyes, a round nose and two large straight lips filling the whole of the space. The arms emerge from the gown to…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9167
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular copper-alloy seal matrix, 17 mm in diameter, with a raised rib on the reverse ending in a pierced D-shaped lug at the top. The central motif is a lamb and flag (the Agnus Dei or Lamb of God); the lamb is looking back over its shoulder and one of its front legs is bent under the body. The flagpole extends up into the inscription where it is crossed to form the initial cross. The inscription around the outside reads ECCE AGNVS DEI (Behold the Lamb of God). This is quite a common 14th-century seal matrix design.
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9168
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One arm and fragment of beam from a folding balance. The arm is broken at its pierced tip; the surviving length is 38 mm and the maximum width of the arm is just 4 mm. There is a pair of ridges just before the pierced tip, and the opposite end is flattened to accommodate the beam as it folds. The beam fragment is attached by a single swivelling peg or rivet; both ends of the beam are broken. The construction of the arm is interesting; along one long edge there are voids showing that it was made either of two pieces, or of a single piece folded, and incompletely hammered together. F…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9169
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three-dimensional human head made from copper-alloy, from a Limoges-style crucifix. The head is rounded, but the neck is flat and cut off at an angle; the casting appears to be complete, but may have been cut down at some time as there is no means of attachment surviving. There is a faint line around the top of the head, which may represent the hair; there is no halo, nor any rivet hole for attaching one. The nose is fairly flat, with a groove on either side running down to the ends of a straight mouth. The eyes are small, circular and deeply drilled, to take inlaid glass beads wh…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9171
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End-cap from a knife handle. It is just a rectangular piece of thick copper-alloy sheet with a rectangular hole set centrally to accommodate a rivet, and it curves more strongly than usual; but this simple object would have been set over the curved end of the knife handle and given a substantial iron rivet with a decorative pyramidal head to provide a neat finish. Usually these end-caps taper slightly to mirror the wedge-shaped cross-section of the handle, but although the edges are corroded this one does not appear to taper. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9172
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End-cap from a knife, made from thin copper-alloy sheet. It was originally drop-shaped in cross-section, and this is the shape of the plate at the far end of the knife, but the sides which extend part of the way down the handle are now bent and distorted. The end measures 23 x 14.5 mm and has a central hole, probably for a rivet. It is decorated with fine engraving which has now almost corroded away. A border can be seen, and two zones of oblique lines, with curvilinear engraving in between. There is engraving in similar condition on the sides of the end-cap, which appear to consi…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9173
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small key made from folded copper-alloy sheet. Most of the bow is missing, but the surviving fragment of perforation shows that this was circular and that the bow was made from a single thickness of sheet. The sheet had to be fairly wide to accommodate the bow, and the stem is made from folding the sheet's width in on itself from the bow end to form a tapering shape. The uncut bit is simply made from two wider thicknesses of the sheet, with a gap at the fold to produce a pierced tip. Surviving length 27 mm, width (length of bit) 10 mm, thickness 3 mm. Dating such a simple key is t…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9174
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small bell made from copper-alloy sheet. At the top is a suspension loop, then after a short solid narrowed neck the sheet is bent around to form a long conical body. The end is cut into four points which are bent inwards to retain the pea. When the bell is held with the suspension hole running from side to side (as if strung on a necklace) the seam falls at the reverse and the front is gilded and decorated with five neat transverse grooves. The grooves definitely do not extend around the back of the bell and the gilding appears not to either. This bell would have been worn on a sa…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9157
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. Flat and oval, measuring 25 x 21 mm, it has a raised flaring rib on the reverse ending at the top in a pierced D-shaped lug. The die is engraved with the top half of a hart emerging from wavy lines representing water. Around the edge is a well-engraved inscription in Lombardic script reading * S' DECANATVS DE HERTISMERE (Seal of the Deanery of Hartismere). Hartismere is the rural deanery covering Hoxne and Eye area in north Suffolk and Thornham Parva is within this. Official religious seal matrices are comparatively rare finds and tend to be, as this one i…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNHAM PARVA', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9158
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy bar-mount. It is rectangular in shape, 21.5 x 5 mm, and has bevelled edges. It does not appear to be decorated. The main part of the mount is 2 mm thick, but the addition of a small integral rivet at either end brings the total thickness up to 4 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9159
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crude mount made from thin copper-alloy sheet, 24 x 6 mm, with one long edge straight and the other having two shallow incurves forming three lobes. The short edges are rounded. Each of the three lobes accommodates an iron rivet. There is little dating evidence, but the mount is a similar size to the type known as a bar-mount.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9160
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount made from a piece of strip folded in half to form a basically rectangular shape. The attachment edge on the front is decoratively if crudely shaped, with a wide V-shaped cut-out in the centre and a narrower one to either side. The back plate is cut straight across. Below this is a single off-centre copper-alloy rivet, now rather corroded. Then comes a more central circular hole in both front and back plates, 3 mm in diameter; this is probably decorative, but could have served to reinforce a pin hole. At the fold, each corner has a large rectangular cut-out and th…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9161
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Long narrow bar-mount made from copper alloy, with the remains of a loop at one end. The bar-mount is 6 mm wide, and is D-shaped in cross-section with a flange down either long edge. The flanges appear to have worn beaded decoration. There is a rivet hole at either end, and beyond one of these is a narrowed bent-under projection which was probably originally a suspension loop or hook. Length of the bar-mount without projection, 32 mm; total length, 35 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9162
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular copper-alloy mount measuring 29 x 15 mm, with a central hole measuring 5 mm in diameter. It is in excellent condition, with a highly polished front; this has bevelled edges and is decorated with a border of rocker-arm engraving around a saltire of similar rocker-arm which is cut by the hole. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet in the centre of each short edge; the rivets are 4 mm long. This mount may be purely decorative, or it may have served to reinforce the holes for the pin.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9163
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusually shaped mount made from copper-alloy sheet. It is in the shape of a crescent with, in the centre of the convex edge, a projecting fleur-de-lis. There is a rivet hole in the centre of the fleur-de-lis and also one at either end of the crescent. On one face, the edges are slightly bevelled and two tiny grooves separate the stem of the fleur-de-lis from the crescent; the reverse is flat. The crescent is 16 mm wide and the entire mount is 22 mm long.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9164
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bar-mount with pendent loop, both made from copper alloy. The bar-mount is 4 mm wide, with a narrower lower end which was originally bent around the pendent loop and secured by a rivet at the lower end of the mount. It is now broken at the bend. The mount is also broken at an upper rivet hole; its surviving length is 18 mm. The pendent loop is a quatrefoil with one foil having a constriction around which the bar-mount is bent. It measures 12.5 x 12.5 mm. The total combined length is 29 mm. A similar example is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1189, from a late 14th-c…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9165
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Domed sexfoil mount pressed from a piece of copper-alloy sheet. Each foil has a hollow pressed into it, giving a sub-triangular cross-section with concave sides. There is a central rivet hole.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9166
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sexfoil mount, domed but with a flat top. Each foil has a curved edge, although these are now ragged in places. The foils are separated by grooves and there is a central rivet hole. This mount is large for its type.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9153
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is D-shaped and highly arched, with a large collared knop at the highest point of the arch. The opposite edge is 15 mm long, and has a central circular rivet hole.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9154
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is basically rectangular, measuring 19 x 18 mm; the upper edge is decoratively curved downwards at either end and upwards in the centre. The central part has cross-hatched decoration and is very slightly expanded. The opposite edge has a central circular rivet hole. This strap-slide probably formed a set with similar belt-mounts with expanded domed centres decorated with cross-hatching (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1161); these appear to date from the second half of the fourteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9133
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and is roughly rectangular, with one large curved and one small V-shaped decorative cut-out on each long edge. The attachment edge has rounded corners and a single rivet hole; the other edge has a bar-mount made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 6 mm long. The bar-mount has a rectangular notch cut out of its inner edge (i.e. the edge opposite to the one on the edge of the plate).
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9134
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and although it has lost most of its edges appears to have been roughly rectangular, with a curved decorative cut-out on each long edge close to the bar-mount. The attachment edge has rounded corners and a single rivet hole blocked by copper-alloy corrosion; the other edge has a bar-mount made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 6 mm long. The bar-mount has a rectangular notch cut out of its inner edge (i.e. the edge opposite to the one on the edge of the p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9135
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and is roughly figure-of-eight shaped, with an oval lobe and a half-oval lobe. The oval lobe is at the attachment end, and has a single rivet. The half-oval lobe has a bar-mount running across it made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a second rivet. There is no notch in the bar-mount. Each rivet is made of copper-alloy and has a separate square or lozengiform rove made from copper-alloy sheet. The rivet at the attachment end is 3 mm long and that at the bar-mount is 5 mm long.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9136
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet, and appears to have lost most of its edges. As it survives now, it is roughly figure-of-eight shaped, with one lozengiform lobe and one half-lozenge lobe. The lozengiform lobe is at the attachment end, and has a single rivet hole blocked with copper-alloy corrosion. The half-lozenge lobe has a bar-mount running across it made of thicker sheet and C-shaped in cross-section. The bar-mount has no notch, and is attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 5 mm long. This rivet has a separate squarish rove made fro…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9137
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a rectangular piece of sheet with one long edge bent into a cylinder. The other long edge has a rectangular projection in the centre, and close to this a bar-mount made from similar copper-alloy sheet is fixed to the plate by a single copper-alloy rivet. The bar-mount is set at a slightly oblique angle to the plate, which is not unusual for this type of object and appears to be deliberate.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9138
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a trapezoidal piece of sheet, with the longest edge bent into a cylinder which retains the outer edge of the clasp's frame. The other long edge has a trapezoidal projection in the centre, and close to this a bar-mount made of thicker copper-alloy sheet is fixed to the plate by a single copper-alloy rivet. Between the bar-mount and the cylinder is a line of rocker-arm engraving. Maximum width of mount, 18 mm. Total width including frame of clasp, 19 mm. Length 9 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9140
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible barred mount. A piece of copper-alloy sheet, now fragmentary but originally shield-shaped, has a broken rivet hole towards the pointed end. The straight end has a bar-mount fixed across it, made from solid rectangular-section copper alloy bar with the short ends bevelled, rather than the more usual curved piece of copper-alloy sheet. This is attached by separate two copper-alloy rivets rather than the more usual one; the more complete rivet is 5 mm long, and has corrosion around its shaft suggesting the original presence of a rove.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9141
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap clasp, with plate, frame and rotating end, all made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a strip folded in half and is now very fragmentary; a single incomplete rivet hole survives at the attachment end. The frame has strongly curved sides, each with a transverse moulding at either end. The rotating end is narrowed along one edge so that it can be wrapped around the outer edge of the frame. It has no bar-mount, but instead there is a quatrefoil of thicker copper-alloy sheet attached by a well-concealed single copper-alloy rivet. Total surviving length, 29 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9124
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. A five-toed foot survives, 39 mm wide and 25 mm thick, with a groove separating this from the upper part which is D-shaped in cross-section. Only a tiny part of this exists, with an irregular U-shaped top covered in grey solder. It seems likely either that this foot broke off its vessel, and had to be replaced, or was cast as a replacement to a broken-off foot. The latter seems more likely as the edges of the top are not clearly broken. Vessels with these feet date from the mid thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9126
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of medieval coarse ware, now broken in two.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9131
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant complete with suspension mount, both made from copper alloy. The pendant is in the shape of a six-petalled flower, 14 mm wide and with a hollowed reverse. The uppermost petal is extended out into a long stem which eventually terminates in a loop; this is now slightly bent. The total length of the pendant is 30 mm. The suspension mount is also in the shape of a six-petalled flower, with a rivet hole in the centre blocked by iron corrosion. Below the lowest petal, a projection is folded in half and a slot cut to form two hinge loops. A copper-alloy hinge bar p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9132
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy oval buckle frame with enamelled decoration. Small and now badly corroded, it has an offset narrowed bar and an expanded flat angled outer edge. This provides an area for the enamelling, which consists of a grooved border around a grooved zig-zag with a curved groove in the central angle, all filled with blue enamel. This is in the Limoges style, although very much at the cheaper end of the market; it dates to the 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9142
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Plate and fragment of frame from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a piece of strip bent in half with frame recesses cut; it retains a scrap of black material, probably leather. There appear to be two well-concealed copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end. All that remains of the frame is a fragment of bar retained within the fold of the plate.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9143
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is now fragmentary but was originally rounded, and has one separate copper-alloy rivet which retains a small sheet rove. The sides each have a pair of small semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by another rivet with lozengiform sheet rove; it sits at a slight angle. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edg…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9144
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is rounded, and has one rivet hole which is now incomplete. The sides each have a pair of shallow semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this end is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by a separate copper-alloy rivet. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate) there is a rectangular notch.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9145
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Frame and rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The frame is basically square, although the sides are slightly outcurved; each side has a small transverse moulding towards either end. The rotating end has a plate made from copper-alloy sheet, which is narrowed to fold around the outer edge of the frame. The wider part has a solid copper-alloy bar-mount attached to it by a single copper-alloy rivet; the bar-mount is set at a slightly oblique angle. The opened-out length is 21 mm, but when the rotating end is closed back onto the frame it measures 14.5 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9146
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet, and appears to have lost most of its edges. As it survives now, it is roughly trapezoidal, with a bar-mount running across the longest edge. This is made of thicker sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, and has a notch in the centre of the inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate). The bar-mount is attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 5 mm long, with the remains of a separate rove made from copper-alloy sheet. The plate has no other rivet hole, so is presumably (although not necessarily…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9148
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is trapezoidal, with a 22 mm long upper edge which has a raised scalloped central ridge. The opposite edge is 20 mm long and has a central circular rivet hole which is blocked by the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. This rivet would have been internal to the strap-slide and would have fixed it to the strap.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9149
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy loop, probably a strap-slide. One end is rectilinear and the other is more rounded; the loop measures 22 x 7 mm and is 2 mm thick. Strap-slides hold down the free end of a strap, so this strap would have to be quite thin.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9150
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 26.5 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 22.5 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate copper-alloy rivet survives together with a small sheet rove. This rivet is internal to the strap-slide and retains a scrap of pale textile.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9151
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 24 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 21 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9152
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 27 mm long. The opposite edge is 23 mm long, and has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives. Rather corroded.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9110
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete composite strap-end made from three sheets of copper alloy. It tapers from 16.5 mm wide at the attachment end to 12 mm wide just before an elaborately cut trefoil or cruciform terminal. The attachment end has a single separate copper-alloy rivet, and is cut straight across. There is a very faint hint of saltire decoration at the attachment end of one plate. The central plate is shorter than the others at c. 35 mm long, leaving space for the strap. The terminal has three arms, each ending in trefoils; the fourth 'arm' connecting it to the body of the strap-end has two little s…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9111
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy front plate from a 'crescentic' strap-end. The attachment end is not actually a crescent, as the points are joined to form a sub-circular shape with an oval perforation at the base. Above is a sub-triangular or trefoil terminal with crudely made relief decoration resembling a bush or tree; the 'crescent' has engraved decoration representing the roots. The 'crescent' has four rivet holes, all blocked with iron corrosion, and is recessed for a missing sheet backplate. There are traces of a shiny white-metal coating on all surfaces except for the recess. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9112
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Composite strap-end made from two sheets of copper alloy. The underplate is much thicker than the upper plate, and has survived better; it is 37 mm long and 9 mm wide. The upper plate is attached by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end, and another close to the terminal. It is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment end, and one long edge is very fragmentary. Both sheets are cut into a trefoil terminal. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9113
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded strap-end made from two pieces of copper alloy. The attachment end is broken and the two sheets have sprung apart and bent; the surviving length is c. 37 mm. A wavy line of rocker-arm engraving can just be made out running the length of one sheet. The long edges are cut into a gently wavy outline towards the closed end, and the end itself is pointed. Here the two sheets are joined, perhaps by solder; although it is not possible to see any rivets, perhaps this is merely due to corrosion. Probably 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9114
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end made from a single piece of copper-alloy sheet bent in half and secured by a single separate copper-alloy rivet. The rivet is neatly concealed at one end but has a conspicuous (but neat) thick round disc head at the other. The strap-end appears to have been made out of sheet previously used for something else, because it tapers from 14 mm wide at one end to 11 mm wide at the other. The unbent length is about 27 mm, and it is possible that a single sheet from a composite strap-end was modified to form this object.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9115
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One sheet from a composite strap-end. Made from copper-alloy, it is 46 mm long and tapers from 13 mm at one end to 10 mm just before the simple lozengiform terminal. There are no rivets or rivet holes and no trace of solder; there is no decoration. Part of one long edge plus the corner at the terminal has a flange less than a millimetre thick, indicating the original presence of side-strips.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9116
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Forked spacer from a composite strap-end. Both arms are now broken, and one is bent as well, but the width at the shoulder seems to be c. 19 mm. A flattish terminal in the form of a collared stylised acorn survives. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9117
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end, made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two rivets. One rivet is now missing and that corner is bent and damaged; the other rivet is made from copper alloy. A line made from very neat rouletted squares runs outside the rivets and up either side, but does not continue beyond the fold. There is a slight gap at the fold, as if to accommodate a bar, and a very slight taper as if to accommodate a frame. The object is not neatly square; the corners are not at right angles. As it stands, a use as a strap-end would be perfe…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9104
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One shoulder and most of bezel from a copper-alloy finger-ring. The hoop flares gradually from 2 mm wide at the old and worn break, to a maximum of 10 mm wide in the centre of the oval bezel. The bezel is flat and has an engraved fleur-de-lis set longitudinally. The shape of this ring, with steeply sloping shoulders and a flat bezel, indicates a 15th- to 17th-century date.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end, now consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One piece is broken off at 22.5 mm long; it is decorated with a line of rocker-arm engraving down each long edge, and an irregular central longitudinal grooved zig-zag made up of punchmarks. In each of the angles of the zig-zag is a short longitudinal groove, similarly made up of punchmarks. The other piece of copper alloy is also probably broken, but survives to 35.5 mm long; it is undecorated. The maximum width, at the attachment end, is 8.5 mm; this tap…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9108
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet now held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One plate is more highly polished and is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment edge. The strap-end tapers from 10 mm wide at the attachment edge to 8 mm wide just before a series of cut-outs herald the start of the terminal. This is broken at a second rivet hole but was probably originally quite long and elaborate. There appears to be a scrap of textile retained between the plates at the attachment end. Total surviving length 48.5 …
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a composite strap-end, made from copper alloy. It tapers from 20 mm wide at the attachment end to 15 mm wide just before a terminal which is now simply rounded but which may originally have been pointed. The attachment end has two separate but well-concealed copper-alloy rivets each 4 mm long, and is slightly incurved with a central semi-circular cut-out. A groove runs a little way up the strap-end from the cut-out. The plate is pitted with corrosion and no decoration is visible, but despite this the presence of the groove indicates that it was the upper plate. On th…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9100
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, now incomplete. The top survives, with a smooth curved surface which could be soldered to the body of the vessel. The reverse is flat, but the front is lumpy and it is hard to see any deliberate design features. There is some sooting on all surfaces including the top. The break is old and worn.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9101
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of body from a cast copper-alloy vessel. All edges are broken, but are now fairly smooth and corroded. The metal is a very dark brown, almost black, and the exterior is rougher and less highly finished than the interior.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9102
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical rivet made from rolled-up copper-alloy sheet. The wider end has been hammered to give a slightly burred-over end, and the tip is corroded and blunt and may be incomplete. Diameter at head, 8-9 mm; length, 22 mm. This type of rivet appears to have been used on medieval and early post-medieval kitchen utensils such as cooking vessels and strainers.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9103
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy oval disc, now very corroded, measuring 39 x 35 mm. Very slightly convex, it is decorated on the outer face with a border of circular stamps, running all of the way around the edge and enclosing seven transverse rows of similar stamps. There are no stamps at the top - at least one if not two rows are missing - and here there is a roughly cut, or perhaps worn, oblique oval hole. This seems to have neater edges on the reverse, and so may have been cut from this side. The decoration dates it to the medieval period. This object is about the right size for a horse-h…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9081
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pot mend, neat and sub-circular (19 mm diameter) on one face and large, lumpy and crude on the other. A fragment of pot wall survives in the narrow waist between the two halves; this is probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9083
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular frame made from copper alloy, from a buckle or from a strap clasp. The bar is rectangular in section with visible filemarks. The sides are thickened with a transverse moulding at either end. The outer edge is narrowed with the remains of a separate sheet roller (if a buckle) or rotating end (if a clasp).
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9084
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, now bent in half. Originally it was rectangular, with a surviving unbent length of c. 32 mm, and tapering from 14 mm wide at the broken hinge loops to 13 mm wide at the attachment end. There is a pin slot and frame recesses, and just behind these are two separate copper-alloy rivets with knobbed heads. There are two further rivet holes at the attachment end (one now incomplete). The plate is worn and corroded, but some decoration can be made out; there appear to be curving double chevrons, each with a row of circular punchmarks between the two line…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9086
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped copper-alloy buckle frame, both loops oval with pointed outer edges. The buckle is angled about the bar and there is iron corrosion on the bar and on one outer edge. In other places there are patches of dark grey patina, perhaps from a white-metal coating. At one end of the bar, the buckle frame has split through its thickness and one loop has broken. This is an odd place to split and perhaps indicates a point of weakness due to the construction method.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9087
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy key, missing its bit. The bow is circular internally, but externally is decorated with a pair of stylised three-dimensional animal heads, one on each side, which appear to be gripping the far end of the bow in their mouths. The stem is octagonally facetted. It begins with a short rounded section, which is divided from the rest of the stem by a ridge. Beyond this, about 15 mm of the stem is solid, and then it has an off-centre longitudinal hole which has broken through on one side. Total surviving length 56.5 mm. The metal is a very pale, but apparently stable, grey-green.…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9088
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring 28 mm in diameter, with an oval or slightly facetted hexagonal cross-section measuring about 1-1.5 x 2 mm. With a dark brown patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9089
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring, a slightly uneven 23-4 mm in diameter. In cross-section it is oval or slightly facetted hexagonally, with one face being much flatter than the other; the cross-section measures about 1 x 2 mm. There are many uncleaned casting flashes around both internal and external edges. With a corroded green patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9090
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. The die is shield-shaped, measuring 14 x 13 mm, with a straight top and convex sides meeting at a point; on the reverse there is a hexagonally facetted conical handle which rises to the stubs of a broken-off perforated terminal. The surviving height is 13 mm. The die is very battered and it is hard to make out the engraved design. It appears to have a chief with a design which is hard to make out; it appears to be a finely engraved frieze but there are occasional shield-shaped seal matrices which have a short inscription here. Below, the main part of the …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9091
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One terminal and fragment of side, from a slender copper-alloy spur. The fragment of side is biconvex in cross-section, with the outer side being more highly curved than the inner. It measures 3.5 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick at the break, then flares very slightly to join the figure-8 terminal at an angle at one of the circular loops. This loop has a V-shaped projection in the angle between the side and the terminal. Now corroded to a rough brown colour. 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9092
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny strap-slide made from copper alloy, with a single integral external rivet with a burred-over end. It is trapezoidal, measuring 9 mm wide at the edge with the rivet and 10 mm wide at the opposite edge. Each edge is roughly triangular or trapezoidal in cross-section, and has visible filemarks, so it is quite well-made despite its tiny size. Length of loop 9 mm; total length 13 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9098
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Octagonally facetted conical lead weight, 13.5 mm in diameter at the base and 19 mm tall. Very carefully made, with a small hole running up from a depression in the base to emerge at the top. It weighs 14.36g (0.50 oz), and must have lost some weight through oxidation, so that if it was made as a half-ounce avoirdupois trade weight it would originally have been slightly over-weight (to the disadvantage of the trader). Probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9099
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. In cross-section it is triangular with rounded sides and corners, and it tapers slightly from one end to the other. The wider end has a deep U cut out of the end, and the narrower end has a swollen and crudely rounded end. Both ends are rough and full of casting flaws and holes.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9064
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Narrow copper-alloy spike, circular in cross-section and tapering from 3 mm in diameter at the wider end. A transverse slot 2 mm wide has been formed near this end, pushing the metal out slightly to either side. There is also a tiny projection from the centre of the wider end. Although it is now worn and corroded, there are traces of gilding on the surface. The wear and corrosion make it difficult to tell if the wider end is original or broken; the projection may suggest that it is original. The condition has also revealed some fine longitudinal ridges which may be the result of t…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9042
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead seal matrix, 31 mm in diameter. At the top is a suspension loop turned at right angles to the plane of the matrix, and looking very much like the loop of a horse-harness pendant. The central motif is a horse-shoe, formed from a U-shaped groove with four deeper blobs on each half. The blobs may all represent nails, or may represent three nails and a calkin on each half. The inscription is well engraved, evenly spaced and easy to read: + SIGILL GERARDI HORSSO. Richard Coates of the University of Sussex has commented that this is probably a surname alluding to a trade, r…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9045
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle plate, now incomplete but originally rectangular. It now measures 22 mm wide by 20 mm long, and has the remains of two hinge loops. Across the centre are three closely spaced, prominent and not especially decorative rivets. Most of one side is missing. Such a simple buckle is hard to date, but is probably medieval.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9046
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated copper-alloy plate from a strap-end, now rather crumpled. The attachment end is incurved and 14 mm wide; there are two rivet holes here. The closed end is cut into a truncated triangle and has a third rivet hole which retains a clumsily made (perhaps replacement) copper-alloy rivet. The reverse has oblique filemarks and perhaps the remains of some solder. The upper face has engraved curvilinear decoration, perhaps of an animal or pair of animals. The lines are made up of short punchmarks, a technique characteristic of medieval ornament.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9047
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy mount in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a wolf. Hollow on the reverse, it has two perforations for eyes in the centre and a third similarly sized rivet hole above. The brow, through which the third rivet hole passes, is cross-hatched, and there is an upright ear to either side. Each ear is emphasised by a groove. The brow is roughly rectangular and is divided from the rest of the head by a groove. The face then tapers to a triangular nose, below which is an open mouth with slightly damaged jaws. The mount is reminiscent of the more common crowned-head mou…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9044
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9048
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small and flimsy copper-alloy mount in the shape of a six-petalled flower. In between the petals are panels decorated with tiny pellets, and there is a rivet hole in the centre. Each of the petals is slightly hollowed on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9049
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. Roughly rectangular, it has eight lobes or petals which are hollow on the reverse, and a central hole which retains a large knob-headed copper-alloy rivet. The rivet is bent over slightly at its end and is 11 mm long.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9051
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a long thin copper-alloy mount from a box. D-shaped in cross-section, it is broken at a rivet hole at either end; towards one end there is relief decoration of transverse mouldings and chevrons, and here the mount is slightly wider. The entire fragment, including the breaks, is worn and corroded to a rough brown patina, with some patches of green surface especially on the flat reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9052
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key. The bow is circular, 14 mm in diameter, and seems internally worn at the edge furthest from the stem. There is a little projection above and below at the junction of bow and stem. The stem is oval in cross-section, and is pierced at the tip; the tip is in line with the end of a simple S-shaped bit which has two channels and two clefts. Probably medieval or early post-medieval.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9053
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, broken at both ends. The leg is wide and relatively thin, with a flat reverse and a front which has a double incurve forming a central midrib. Both faces retain traces of sooting.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9027
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. The die is roughly circular, 18-19 mm in diameter, and rises on the reverse to a hexagonally facetted conical handle. At the top of this is a double collar and then a pierced trefoil terminal, now blocked with iron corrosion. Parts of the surface of the handle are lost to corrosion. The central motif is an eagle displayed (not particularly well carved) and the reasonably clear inscription around reads *ECLE LETOD LSV. The D could perhaps be an R and the L lacks a serif to the horizontal stroke, so could perhaps be an I. Although the spacing of the letter…
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9031
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Nail or rivet made from rolled copper-alloy sheet. One end has been squashed out into a large oval head (17 x 12 mm) and below the shaft tapers from 6 mm in diameter to a sharp point. Total length 20 mm. These rivets are used on various kinds of kitchen utensils (e.g. vessels and strainers) in the medieval and early post-medieval periods.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BENTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9022
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rivet made from rolled-up copper-alloy sheet, with a subcircular head 7 mm in diameter and a shaft tapering from 4 mm in diameter to a point. Total length 13 mm. Rivets made from rolled sheet were used on a variety of medieval and early post-medieval kitchen utensils such as vessels and strainers.
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9023
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy lace-tag, made from sheet metal with an edge-to-edge seam. Two V-shaped nicks are cut out of one end and the resulting points bent inwards to form the closed end. The open end has no rivet, and may be incomplete. It tapers slightly from roughly 4 mm in diameter at the open end to roughly 3 mm in diameter at the closed end. The weight includes the soil contained within the lace-tag. The technique of cutting one end of the lace-tag into a series of points which are then bent inwards to form the closed end does not appear to be used either on the lace-tags from medieval …
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9024
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy tube, perhaps a lace-tag. Although it is now rather battered, it can be seen that it is made from sheet metal with an edge-to-edge seam. Neither end is closed and there are no rivet holes, but one end does appear to have been flattened. This end appears to be complete, but the other looks as if it has been torn. Two lace-tags of much the same diameter and construction, but much longer, are illustrated in Margeson 1993; one is from a late 15th-century context, the other from a context of c. 1550-1700.
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.