Record ID: NMS-D39FAC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified lead object, cast in one piece, now incomplete. It has a flat base, probably originally roughly circular, but much of this is now missing; what remains is variable in thickness, at most 3mm thick. The reverse is flat and featureless, but the upper surface has the remains of four ribs arranged in a cross shape. These are D-shaped in cross-section, and two survive well, one badly and one not at all. There is a rounded boss in the centre of the cross, c. 4mm in diameter, which brings the maximum thickness of the object to 7.5mm. At the end of the three surviving cross arms a…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2FBA2B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and incomplete copper-alloy object of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date. It is thick and flat, and can be reconstructed to resemble a five-petalled flower or cinquefoil with a circular perforation. Only two of the petals now survive. They are almost identical, both being short and rounded with an engraved line running from the centre close to the edge, then turning a rounded obtuse angle to meet the circular perforation at an acute angle. Each is surrounded by three dots, one at the end of the engraved line near the edge of the petal and the others flanki…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C5F27A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy object, probably of 12th- or 13th century date. It consists of a cast front plate and a fragmentary sheet backplate, held together by two copper-alloy rivets. The cast front is basically U-shaped with parallel long sides and a lot of surviving gilding. Along the length of the U it is perforated by two complete neat circular holes, each 10mm in diameter. A third similar hole is cut across by a straight edge which is at a slight angle to the long edges; it is difficult to tell whether this edge is complete or very neatly broken and smoothly worn. The two rivets are i…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF9241
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, in form very similar to the 'lyre-shaped' buckles used in the 15th century. It is openwork and roughly oval in outline. One end has a basically rectangular perforation and the other end has two oval perforations; these combine to form the 'lyre' shape. One of the short edges of the rectangular perforation (nearest the ovals) is incurved and has rounded corners. Beyond the two oval perforations is a terminal, now probably incomplete, formed from two back-to-back scrolls with a triangular perforation in between. There are two other areas o…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOCKTON', 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: 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: 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: SF8940
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorative mount from an unidentified object, made from a thin rectangular sheet of dark copper alloy. The full length of 47.5 mm survives, but all of one long edge is missing leaving a surviving width of 29 mm. The positions of the surviving rivet holes, although irregularly placed, suggest an original width of c. 36 mm. Each surviving edge is decorated with a series of evenly spaced edge nicks which almost meet a grooved border. Within this is a more decorative border which may be of a different design on each edge. The surviving long edge has semi-circles hanging from the groov…
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'OLD NEWTON WITH DAGWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8869
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very slightly tapering piece of copper-alloy strip, 12 mm wide at one end and 11 mm wide at the other. Each long edge is bent slightly upwards to form a border to either side of a zone of engraved decoration. This consists of an animal in profile looking to the left, with dog-like head, rounded body, long curving tail and two legs, and a plant in front of the animal with two stems each ending in a trefoil leaf. The head has pointed ears, eyes, eyebrows and a well-drawn nose and mouth; the back is rounded and there are contour lines indicating the left shoulder. The two legs both ap…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8837
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy rod, 45.5 mm long and rectangular in cross-section (5 x 3 mm). It has one narrow side cut into a series of 'crenellations' with the raised parts 3 mm long and the lowered parts 4 mm long. Now corroded to a rough red patina, there are traces of gilding on one face which indicate a medieval date. The function is much harder to assess; although there are buckles with crenellated edges, they are of different proportions.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8843
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy plate, with sunken and counter-relief cast decoration. The surviving original edge is curved, as if the object was originally circular; at one end is a broken projection. The sunken decorated panel follows the curve of this edge, and has another straight edge some way in from a broken edge. Along the third edge the decorated panel is incomplete. It consists of a border along the curved edge, and a spiralling plant motif filling the surviving quarter-circle. There is a neat circular hole 3 mm in diameter cutting through the corner of the panel, with reserve…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8654
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead ornament in the shape of an arrow, with flat reverse and angled or midribbed front giving a low triangular cross-section. The object appears to be complete. Similar lead objects in the shape of stars are thought to have been set into the plaster of medieval ceilings as architectural ornaments; see Egan 1998, no. 90.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7565
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of flat circular frame with a short decorated projection. The frame is 36 mm in diameter, 4 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick, with edges a little more rounded on one face than the other. Nearly half of it survives, and the breaks are old and worn. The projection is 6 mm wide at the most, and 13.5 mm long (9.5 mm long if the 4 mm width of the frame is discounted). It tapers and is decorated on one face with a clear chevron moulding and perhaps two dots; it may have been intended to represent an animal head. The other face is flat and has filemarks. There are three obvious possibili…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7550
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pin-like object made from copper alloy. Long and thin, it has one broken end and one complete end. The complete end is a truncated cone with a flat edge, oval in cross-section and measuring 6 x 7 mm. This tapers down to a surrounding collar, below which is a cylindrical shaft 3.5 mm in diameter and 8 mm long, now a little bent. Below this is a rectangular-section panel (5 x 6 mm) which has two transverse grooves on each of its narrower faces. The rest of the object, running down to the worn break, tapers and has a wide bevel on the edges of one of the wider faces and a narrow beve…
Created on: Friday 7th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TATTINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7526
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical object made from copper-alloy sheet wrapped round to form a tube. It measures 12 mm in diameter at the top and is oval, 18 x 15 mm, at the wider bottom; the butted seam flares less than the side opposite the seam. Around the top is a zone 8 mm deep, demarcated by short grooved dashes, which has coarse filemarks as if to received solder. There are also hammer marks around the top. At the bottom is a zone 4 mm deep which has decoration of short irregular oblique grooves, and is bordered to top and bottom with a grooved line. The decoration suggests that the object is medieva…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7457
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy unidentified object in the shape of a crude fleur-de-lis. 6 mm thick, one face has a broad groove down the central leaf of the fleur but the other face is flat. There is a copper-alloy rivet running through the tip of the central leaf, which projects equally on either face. This is definitely a rivet, not part of a suspension loop, as one end is burred over. The broken-off stem of the lis looks as if it might have had a slot across it, which would suggest a function as a knife end-cap, but end-caps from knives always have decoration on both faces. Probably medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', 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: SF7290
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin piece of curved copper-alloy sheet, with a second piece of copper-alloy sheet attached to its convex face with a single large central copper-alloy rivet. The second piece of sheet is rectilinear, measuring 27 mm long and tapering from 17 to 14 mm wide. The underneath sheet follows its lines along all except one of its long sides, which is more clearly broken. No inferences should be drawn from this, though, as the second sheet would have protected the sheet underneath right up to its edge. The object looks ancient - the rivet is reminiscent of those made of rolled sheet and us…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7234
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, with one split end and a terminal set with a circular piece of glass. The split end is irregular, and flares to a maximum of 8.5 mm wide at its base. It is ncomplete, with the front half broken off. The surviving rear half has a single rivet hole, and on the reverse has a broad band of relief decoration in the form of a zig-zag or line of Vs. Where the object becomes solid it is oval in section, 7.5 x 6 mm, with grooves all the way around separating this part into a separate rounded lobe. This lobe is decorated on the front only with lon…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LEVINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6893
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper alloy in the shape of a dog's head. The reverse is unfinished and slightly hollowed, and the head is broken off at the base of a long thick neck. In the middle of the break is a slight bump which may indicate that a narrowed bar originally projected. The upper face of the object is slightly rounded, and was originally smoothly polished but now has lots of corrosion bubbles. The neck tapers slightly and then curves into a long tilted-up head; at the corner is a short rounded relief ear, and under the jaw is a groove emphasising the curve. On top of the head, the …
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2001
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: SF6574
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy object, just possibly a rectangular drop handle from a box or similar item. The L-shaped, the longer arm is broken part of the way along a panel of twist decoration which is bordered by a double transverse groove. Beyond this is an undecorated panel of rectangular section (5 x 6 mm) with bevelled corners; this is held in the open jaws of a moulded animal head. The head has a pointed nose, and there are broad oblique grooves on the lower jaw and back of the head. These run up to the corner; the shorter arm of the L thickens and is pierced transversely with a …
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6366
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of gilded decorated copper-alloy object, now too small to identify. Roughly rectangular, it has an off-centre circular perforation which interrupts a double engraved longitudinal line, and which has another engraved line curving around it on one side. This single line has a short double transverse line at either end, which continues at one end beyond the longitudinal line. One short end has the remains of a second perforation, and the other has the remains of a loop at right angles to the rest of the object. The reverse has fewer traces of decoration, and no surviving gilding.
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6371
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Piece of gilded copper-alloy strip, 11 mm wide, with engraved decoration on one face. Although the strip is incomplete, the decoration appears to consist of a long rectangular panel with one end missing, outlined with a single-line border and containing an engraved human figure with its head missing. It seems to be turned slightly to the left (as you look at it), with a long draped skirt, an arm bent at the elbow and ending in a hand, and then some lines of unclear significance. The area where the head would be is missing and the whole thing is slightly bent. There is no decoration…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF6317
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an unidentified copper-alloy object. It consists of two rods, both D-shaped in section, meeting at a right angle. One rod is straight and 4-5 mm wide; the other forms a convex curve and is 4 mm wide. On the outside of the corner is a circular loop 6.5 mm in diameter. The curving side of the object is very short, but the straight side is longer; there is a projecting transverse lobe a little way down, beyond which the rod is wider. The breaks are old. It has a slightly medieval feel about it.
Created on: Wednesday 11th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6293
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mystery object made from copper alloy, now triangular in shape with the two surviving edges both very slightly incurved, but probably originally lozengiform. It is thick, flat and hollow, and is decorated on both faces and on both surviving edges. The object is broken across its widest part, with more missing from one face than from the other; each face has engraved decoration of a double-line border, which at one corner (a different one on each face) makes an angle which shows that the complete object was probably broken across the centre. Towards the apex of each triangular face…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6162
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified copper-alloy object or fragment of object. 26 x 8 mm, it is curved in both planes. It flares and tapers again along its long axis, and is decorated with a transverse moulding close to either end. Both ends may be broken, but if so the breaks are old. A patch of iron corrosion in the centre on both faces may be the remains of an iron rivet. The mouldings are reminiscent of medieval buckle frames but the date remains uncertain.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5814
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thick flat piece of copper-alloy plate, made in the shape of a bird or animal head. The neck is narrow (6 mm wide) and broken (fresh break). The head is bulbous, with two triangular ears projecting at the back, a curved brow/eye area, two short pointed jaws or an open beak, and a curved chin. The upper face of the plate is smoothly polished, and no added decoration can be seen; although there is a hint of a circle in the eye area and a possible curve for the cheek, these appear to be just smooth areas with slightly less corrosion and slightly higher polish. The edges are bevelled w…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5768
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead star of six points. Each point is triangular in section and slightly curved; some are shorter than others. The reverse is very smooth but not completely flat. Maximum dimension, 22 mm. 3 mm thick. Weight 3.56g. The function of these stars is uncertain. Larger ones are thought to have been set in plaster as ceiling or wall decorations; these are occasionally found gilded. This one seems a little small for such a use.
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5740
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two undecorated copper-alloy discs. One is 15 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick, and weighs 4.3g; the other is more irregular, 13 x 11 mm and 1mm to 2.5 mm thick, and weighs 1.97g. Of unknown date, Roman to modern.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5661
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of unidentified object made of copper-alloy. It consists of a curving bar with a knop at one corner forming a right angle, and a fragmentary projection at the other. The cross-section is trapezoidal with a flat reverse. It has a vaguely medieval air - with similarities to buckle frames - but really too little survives to identify it.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Monday 29th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5170
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object or fragment of object, made of two sheets of gilded copper-alloy held together by a single copper-alloy rivet. Both sheets are nearly rectangular, 20 mm wide by 21-24 mm long. The lower sheet is undecorated and has two adjacent edges (20 and 21 mm long) turned up at nearly 90 degrees to form a flange. Into this flange is set the upper sheet, which is decorated with neatly made ?floral ornament made up of fine dots. The 24 mm long edge of this sheet is slightly turned up and is then broken. The rivet has a thick but neat head and is set close to the 24 mm long e…
Created on: Friday 30th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE ELY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4894
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded piece of copper-alloy sheet with traces on one face of relief decoration and gilding. Basically rectangular, 33 x 13 mm, at one end there is a rivet hole with ?spiral relief decoration around it. At the other end the short edge is slightly damaged, and from the end of one long side a 5 mm wide projection extends 6 mm before being turned under nearly at right angles. It is hard to distinguish breaks from original edges as the whole thing is so worn. Function is uncertain, but the decoration and gilding suggest a medieval date.
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4372
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible mount of probable medieval date. Rounded and slightly oval, 35 x 38 mm, it is 1-2 mm thick and very slightly curved or bent. In the centre is a neat circular hole, 5 mm in diameter, surrounded by a raised collar, now a bit squashed but still 5 mm max tall, which may originally have been the setting for a jewel. Around this was a zone of stamped decoration and then a groove, now mostly obscured by corrosion. Then there is an undecorated zone, then an outer border of stamped circles between a pair of grooves; this is interrupted by a broken circular hole, perhaps 2-3 mm in …
Created on: Monday 15th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3950
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead-alloy disc, now a misshapen oval, perhaps with cut edges. The thickness tapers from one shorter edge to the other, and there are some holes in the edge which suggest that the disc may have been made by squashing together two or more thinner pieces. The disc is decorated on one face with a probable shield, on which is a cross with short equal round-ended arms. There also seem to be some small pellets on the shield. Around the edge are the remains of a ?beaded circular border. The other face has an ?oval pelleted border which appears to enclose some large crude unreadable lettering…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3826
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Heavy copper-alloy object consisting of a cylindrical rod and an expanded conical terminal. The conical terminal is 27 mm in diameter at its widest point, and about 24 mm long. It has a slightly rounded end which is in fairly good unbattered condition. The sloping sides have many short grooves and scratches caused by ancient damage, probably while in use; there is decoration of two encircling parallel grooves. The rod is 12 mm in diameter and there is a slight step or moulding where it joins the conical end. A small fragment of the original end of the rod survives, with below it t…
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3605
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a rod of sub-square section, each side 4 mm and with rounded corners, now bent (no visible stress to the metal). At one end is a nicely modelled animal head with small knob-like ears, circular sunken eyes filled with ?glass, a short nose between rounded cheeks, and perhaps a slightly protruding tongue. If the rod is held so that both eyes are visible, the upper face is decorated with evenly spaced circular punchmarks which do not occur on the other faces. At the other end is a curious expanded ?terminal with four indentati…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.