Record ID: SF8499
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. It is rectangular in section, 23 x 10 mm at the fragmentary hollow top tapering to 16 x 7.5 at the angle with the foot. The foot turns an angle of less than ninety degrees and then is squared off.
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8480
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three pieces of box mount, all perhaps from the same box. They are all D-shaped in section, and all vary in width, one from 4 to 5.5 mm, another from 5 to 6 mm, and the third from 6 to 7 mm. The narrowest has an almost right-angled turn, the middle-sized one a rounder curve and the widest is flat. All are corroded but have the worn remains of relief decoration at one end, consisting of transverse ridges and V-shapes with the centre of the final V shape extending as a tapering point a little further down the highest part of the mount (on the widest one this tapering point is not visi…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8481
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy finger-ring. The basic shape is of the type known as 'stirrup-shaped', i.e. with the bezel extended into a point into which the oval setting is recessed. This example has a fairly low bezel and the stone or glass setting is now missing, leaving the white adhesive visible beneath. The bezel is 4 mm wide and tapers both in width and thickness into the hoop, which is 3.5 mm wide and 1 mm thick. In cross-section the hoop is biconvex. The ring measures 21 mm in external width and 25 mm from the top of the bezel to the bottom of the hoop. 'Stirrup-shaped' rings date from the…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8478
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a book. Rectangular, the surviving dimensions are 41 x 33 mm but parts of the short sides (top and bottom) are probably missing. It has openwork decoration of a bird or mythical beast, with a long body running diagonally across the mount and ending in a curving tail, a single wing above, a head looking back towards the wing, and perhaps two or perhaps four legs. Around the animal is a frame, which the wing and head touch. There is a solid section between the lower body and the frame which has a circular rivet hole. The possible two fo…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8473
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 29th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'OTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8461
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular copper-alloy buckle plate or catch-piece from a book clasp, measuring 19 mm wide and having a surviving length of 33 mm. The attachment end is cut into a double incurve, and has a rivet hole in the centre. There is a short groove running longitudinally up from the centre of one incurve; the relevant part of the other incurve is missing. The other end has a 9 mm wide central slot, and a shallow recess to either side. There is a band of engraved decoration across at the base of the slot and recesses, consisting of four saltires with a transverse line beyond them. In the …
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8462
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate, rectangular and measuring 13 mm wide by 24 mm surviving length. It has a pin slot and frame recesses; one of the hinge loops is missing entirely and the other is broken. There is one complete rivet hole close to the pin slot and another partial one at the broken attachment end. The buckle plate is corroded and there is no visible decoration.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8465
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALDEBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8468
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel. A low triangle in cross-section, it rises in two convex curves to a central midrib. 30 mm wide at the broken top, it tapers gently to 28 mm in the centre and then flares again to 32 mm wide at the thickened foot. There are small patches of sooting.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALDEBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8469
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular-section cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, 16 mm in diameter for most of its length. A small fragment of the body of the vessel survives at the top. Encrusted with corrosion and soot deposits.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALDEBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8446
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel. Basically rectangular in section, it has a midrib running down the front. It tapers from 36 mm wide at the broken top to 31 mm wide at the bottom before it turns a right-angle into a short flaring foot. The broken top is hollow, but lower down the leg is solid and there appears to be a thick layer of sooting on the top of the solid part. There is some light sooting on all other surfaces.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8447
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two sherds of medieval coarse ware. One rim sherd from a 13th-century bowl, and one body sherd which cannot be more closely dated than 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8454
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Hedingham coarse ware, 12th to 13th century.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8455
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd, not a local fabric - perhaps Ely ware. Medieval.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8456
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Late Medieval and Transitional ware, 15th to 16th century.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8459
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical lead weight. The base is circular, 16 mm in diameter, and the weight is 39 mm tall. The sides are straight and the weight is quite neatly made. Off-centre in the base is a circular hole 6-7 mm in diameter, which runs up the middle of the weight to a depth of 23 mm. There is no evidence of any loop or perforation at the top. As a standing weight, this may be medieval.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8427
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame, 34.5 mm long and 24 mm wide. Both loops are oval and they are slightly angled about the bar. The frame is not particularly neatly made and the pin is now missing.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8430
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring, an irregular circle in shape and 21.5 to 23.5 mm in diameter. The cross-section is oval, but also irregular, measuring from 2 to 3.5 mm wide and from 1 to 2.5 mm thick. It is quite corroded, and pieces of the edge are missing. Possibly a medieval brooch or buckle frame, or alternatively a medieval or early post-medieval harness ring, etc.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8431
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8432
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded copper-alloy ring, 23-24 mm in diameter and with an irregular pointed-oval cross-section 1.5-3 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick. Perhaps a medieval brooch or buckle frame, or a medieval or post-medieval harness ring, etc.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8424
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8420
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount, probably from a box. Now bent, it would originally have measured about 90 mm long and for most of its length it is 10 mm wide. It is slightly convex on the upper surface and slightly hollowed on the reverse. Each end has a terminal, beginning perhaps with a transverse groove and ridge, then having an incurved cut-out, and then a very slightly widened rounded lobe (pierced for a rivet hole) ending in a long pointed knop. The mount is now corroded and worn so that all the surface detail has been lost; there may originally have been more surface decoration. It is n…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8408
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two body sherds of Medieval Coarse Ware.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 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: SF8409
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One body sherd of possible Hedingham ware, but apparently unglazed.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 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: SF8410
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of jug handle, Late Medieval and Transitional Ware.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 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: SF8412
Object type: TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of possible medieval peg tile.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8413
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame in the shape of a rose, with central bar on which a narrow copper-alloy plate survives. Each of the five petals of the rose is incurved externally and has a slightly sunken centre. The plate is made from a 13 mm wide strip of copper-alloy sheet bent around the bar and secured with two off-centre iron rivets. A pin slot has been cut but there are no frame recesses. The pin is missing. Late medieval or early post-medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8416
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel. In cross-section it is fairly flat with rounded sides, but rises in the centre of the outer face to a low midrib. The top is missing and the bottom tapers to a rounded point. There is some sooting on the outer face.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8418
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Solid copper-alloy end-cap from a knife handle. The end-cap is pointed oval in cross-section and perhaps roughly rectangular when viewed from the side. Halfway along one edge a moulded ridge begins with a short projection; this moulding continues down either face, petering out in the higher centre and reappearing close to the other edge. It curves so that when it reaches the other edge (it does not project) it is closer to the junction with the iron tang. Beyond this moulding, the end-cap ends in four ridges which radiate from the beginning of the curved ridge and end in small proj…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8397
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Curious pyramidal copper-alloy object which may be an unusual form of vessel leg. It is square in cross-section, tapering from 18 mm square at the top to 9 mm square at the base. The top has a flattened area suggesting that it may have been cast separately and soldered on to the vessel. At only 32.5 mm long, it is short for a vessel leg. As its proportions are reminiscent of a dish-support from a chafing dish, it may belong to the same date (15th to 16th century).
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8401
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small body sherd, probably of medieval coarse ware (12th to 14th century).
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8395
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded finger-ring, probably made from silver. 22 mm in external diameter, the hoop is roughly triangular in section with a slightly convex inner surface and a facetted outer surface. It is 4 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick. The bezel has been fractured neatly across its centre; it consists of a roughly oval, but now broken, flattened platform decorated with engraved decoration so fine that it can hardly be deciphered without the aid of a microscope. Even with this help the original decorative scheme is uncertain; there is a reserved area in the centre with a trefoil to one side and what look…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8391
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-triangular copper-alloy plate, now very corroded but surviving to 37.5 mm long, 21 mm wide and a maximum of 5.5 mm thick. The wider end has a projection at each corner which continues the line of the sides. The sides are decoratively shaped with a slightly curved lobe, a moulding, a more strongly curved lobe and then a rounded and knopped terminal. On the upper surface the object is decorated with scrolly relief ornament, the details of which are now hard to see. There is a central 3.5 mm diameter circular hole, and also a 3 mm diameter hole in the terminal. The object is in g…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8387
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
End-cap from a knife handle, consisting of two rectangular pieces of copper-alloy sheet sandwiched around the remains of a 4 mm thick iron tang. The copper-alloy sheets measure 14 x 17 mm, and have some scratched or engraved decoration. On one side this appears to be four parallel and slightly oblique lines with zig-zag between the central pair, and on the other side is a possible shield with central vertical line. The iron protrudes slightly around three sides of the copper alloy; it is very corroded, as the object does not react to a magnet. End-caps usually have an oval cross-sec…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8388
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy handle lug of the type used mainly on chafing dishes. The lug is 9 mm thick and is gently rounded on both faces. An off-centre circular perforation runs between the two faces. The lug is basically oval, but flares slightly at the rear end before ending in a very short integral circular rivet. These lugs held drop handles similar to sf1099/8389.
Created on: Friday 5th April 2002
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8389
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable drop handle from a chafing dish or similar vessel. It consists of a bar, pentagonal in cross-section, which flares slightly towards an obtuse angle. Beyond the angle the cross-section changes to more oval. Both ends are broken (old breaks). The pentagonal-section length has lots of filemarks. Perhaps related to the handle lug sf1099/8388.
Created on: Friday 5th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8384
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Long thin mount made from gilded copper-alloy, probably originally from a box. Now bent into a U shape, the central part is D-shaped in section, undecorated and 2.5 mm wide. At either end it expands into a wider lobe, each of which has a separate copper-alloy rivet 4-5 mm long. One of these lobes is decorated with radiating grooves which probably originally formed a double-strand saltire; beyond this lobe, the metal is drawn out into a point which is curled up and back on itself to form a small loop. The other lobe is incomplete, but appears to have been decorated with a pair of tr…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8379
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a swivel, consisting of a D-shaped ring and an oval-section swivelling element. The D-shaped ring has a strongly curved part with a stylised animal head at either end; between the animal heads is a narrowed bar. The bar passes through a hole or loop in the swivelling element; below this there is a tapering oval-section shaft which has two grooves around it. The shaft would have fitted into a hollow globular central section, with another swivelling element and D-shaped ring at the other end. Both swivelling elements would be free to turn, held by one of the grooves, although th…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Friday 30th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8380
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy annular brooch, circular and 35 mm in diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, 6.5 mm wide and 2 mm thick, with a very narrow (2 mm wide) pin constriction. The pin is missing. The upper surface of the brooch is engraved with a well-made border groove around each edge. In between is an inscription in small black-letter; the letters which are rather poorly made and spaced, and occasionally cut the inner border groove. The first three, next to the pin constriction, read ihc and are quite well cut; there is then a quatrefoil in a lozenge. After this the quality fal…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8375
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval buckle frame with straight bar, not narrowed or offset. Apart from the bar, all of the frame is decorated on the upper surface with deep oblique grooves which give a cabled effect. The reverse has filemarks. The buckle is slightly but evenly bent upwards parallel to the bar, probably as a result of use.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8374
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Buckle frame, pin and plate, all made from copper alloy. The frame is trapezoidal, measuring 31 mm wide at the outer edge and 28 mm wide at the bar. The outer edge has a slightly projecting grooved pin rest. The pin is now a corroded spike of copper alloy. The plate is 25 mm long and has fragmentary edges; it is folded under to form a short underplate which does not have any apparent means of attachment to the upper plate. The surviving width of the plate is 27.5 mm. It is basically rectangular, with frame recesses, a pin slot and two broken rivet holes at the corners of the att…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8355
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval buckle frame made from copper alloy. 24 mm wide, it has an offset bar and a 17 mm long oval-section moulding on the outer edge. This moulding tapers at either end and has a constriction in the centre for a separate sheet 'roller' which has some grooved decoration. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8356
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval buckle frame made from copper alloy. 20 mm wide, it has an offset bar and a pointed outer edge decorated with a pair of transverse ridges to either side of the point. Now rather corroded. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8357
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular buckle frame with pin. The bar is slightly narrowed and is a little worn in the centre, probably due to wear from the pin. The sides and outer edge are bevelled on the exterior and have filemarks on the upper surface; the outer edge is bevelled on the interior on the reverse, giving an angled effect. The pin is made from circular-section copper-alloy wire. The frame measures 31 x 20.5 mm and the pin is 23 mm long.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8358
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular frame, possibly from a buckle but more probably from a strap clasp. The sides are curved in the centre; both the bar and outer edge are narrowed. If this is a buckle, the bar would have held a plate and pin and the outer edge would have held a separate roller; if it is a clasp, the bar would have held a plate and the outer edge would have held a rotating end. In general, however, buckles of this shape have a thickened and grooved outer edge which may be imitating a separate roller, so it is more likely that the object is a clasp. 13th to 15th century.17
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8359
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded large copper-alloy buckle frame, with missing offset bar. The frame is basically oval, with the centre of the outer edge extended into a broad point with a low rounded lobe to either side. There are traces of a grooved pin rest but no other details survive. Probably 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8360
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, plate and pin. The frame is oval and 28 mm wide; it is worn, but two pairs of oblique grooves can be seen decorating the outer edge. The bar is offset and narrowed, and holds the pin and the two hinge loops of the plate. The plate is basically rectilinear; it flares from 17 mm at the attachment end to 20 mm at the opposite end, where frame recesses and a pin slot have been cut and the rest of the sheet has been folded under to form a short underplate. There are two copper-alloy rivets with large circular heads at the hinge end which join the upper plate t…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8361
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle plate, now very corroded. The plate is basically D-shaped, and made from a piece of thin oval copper-alloy sheet folded in half with frame recesses and a pin slot cut. Three copper-alloy rivets join the plates together, and also secure a cast copper-alloy openwork mount to the upper plate. This mount is B-shaped internally, and at the junction of the two lobes of the B there is a projecting stylised animal head. One of the rivets passes through the animal head and the other two pass through thickened areas in the corners. Another buckle made from thin sheet wit…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8353
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
About half of a lead seal matrix. Originally circular and about 30 mm in diameter, the lead appears brittle and has been broken, not cut. It is 3 mm thick and no handle or lug survives; the reverse is flat and undecorated. The central motif is probably an elaborate fleur-de-lis. The inscription around the edge reads [S]IGI[L]L PHILIP D - - (Seal of Philip (of?) - - -). Both are well engraved. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8364
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Ely ware, with grooved decoration and greenish glaze both inside and out.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8365
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rim fragment from a copper-alloy vessel. There is no thickening or tapering to distinguish the rim from the rest of the vessel; it is 1.4 mm thick at the rim, and tapers to 0.7 mm thick at the innermost break. There is very little curve to the fragment. The broken edges incorporate three incomplete circular holes, all 5 mm in diameter; these were presumably drilled as part of a repair. Both faces are worn or polished smooth. This is an unusual vessel fragment due to its thinness, flatness, lack of curve, lack of distinction between the rim and the rest of the vessel and lack of d…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8367
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded fragment of openwork horse-harness pendant, made from copper alloy. It appears to have been circular, with a large circular perforation in the centre and a ring of smaller roughly circular perforations around, each of the smaller perforations being separated by a pair of radiating grooves. Two of the smaller perforations survive intact and the pendant's edge appears to have been decoratively shaped around them. At the top, the base of a suspension loop turned at right angles to the rest of the pendant survives.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8369
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key with circular bow, moulding between bow and stem, oval-section stem continuing in a point beyond the bit, and simple bit with single cleft to front and to rear. Simple keys such as these may date from the medieval or early post-medieval periods.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8370
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key with circular bow, oval-section stem ending in a short hollow, and simple bit with single cleft to front and to rear. Simple keys such as these may date from the medieval or early post-medieval periods.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8371
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Single sheet from a composite strap-end. It is U-shaped, and is broken across a rivet hole at the straight end. One face is polished and the other has both filemarks and the scar from a soldered-on forked spacer. The plate is now bent; surviving length, as bent, 22 mm. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8338
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8339
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
The moneyer of this coin may be Alf - or Alw - . The list of possibilities includes Alfred (minting at London, Taunton and Worcester), Alfwine (minting at Southwark, Colchester and Gloucester), Alfward (minting at Norwich); or Alwine (London and Pevensey) or Alwold (Winchester). There is always a possibility that he could also be the enigmatic moneyers from Ipswich and Sudbury, recorded only as A - RI and AL - - respectively.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8340
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8341
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cylindrical leg from a copper-alloy vessel. It tapers very slightly from 14 mm in diameter at the top, where it is attached to a fragment of body, to 13 mm at a lower break. Total length 117 mm.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8342
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular copper-alloy buckle frame 39 mm in diameter, with central bar. The frame is a quarter-circle in cross-section, 5 mm wide and 3 mm thick, and is decorated with slightly oblique transverse grooves.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8346
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8347
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant and suspension mount, both made from copper alloy gilded on the front. The pendant is drop-shaped and slightly convex, with a large rounded terminal at the narrower end set with a circular cabochon glass setting. The rest of the pendant is decorated with transverse grooves, and there is a suspension loop extending from the centre of the wider end. The pendant measures 30 mm long but just 9 mm wide, and is made of fairly thick metal. It is attached by a copper-alloy hinge bar to the suspension mount, which tapers from the hinge loops to a transverse moulding and t…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8322
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from a copper-alloy strap-end, in the form of a small crowned head. Although fairly flat, the head is modelled in the round. The crown has three lobes, with a V-shaped groove on either side at the base of the central lobe. The face has engraved triangular eyes, a slight transverse moulding forming high cheekbones, and a slight longitudinal moulding forming the nose. Below the nose is a larger triangle of grooves forming the mouth and the creases from nose to mouth. At the bottom of the head is a large moulding or collar that runs right round the object, and below this is a na…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Saturday 7th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8331
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8332
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large fragment of copper-alloy purse bar with L-shaped cross-section. One of the arms of the L is wider (7 mm) and is decorated with fine cross-hatching interrupted by a single undecorated panel 8 mm long. The other is narrower (6 mm) and undecorated, with the remains of four sewing holes which are all broken through. Now bent out of shape, the surviving length is 81 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8334
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy vessel, 43 mm high and a maximum of 31 x 27 mm in cross-section. The base is rounded and the sides rise with a very slight convex curve to a thickened rim. Part of the rim is missing but one small pierced vertical lug handle survives. Close to the base is a repair plug of copper alloy, with a small hole close by. The function of these small vessels is unknown, but Geoff Egan of the Museum of London has suggested that as they clearly held something small and valuable they may have been used to contain mercury. Chemical analysis of the interiors will be needed bef…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STAMBOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8335
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. Circular and 15 mm in diameter, the reverse is hexagonally facetted with rounded angles between the facets, and rises to a conical handle ending in a flattened pierced circular terminal. The terminal is now bent slightly out of line and the surviving height is 17 mm. The die is engraved with a stag with antlers, with a cross in between the antlers. Around the outside is the inscription * CREET MOV. This is Creet Moy, the Anglo-French equivalent of the common Latin Crede Mihi (believe me). 'Creet' is the imperative form of the Anglo-French verb 'creire' (moder…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8325
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8326
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8327
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8328
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8299
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead papal bulla in excellent condition, a slightly flattened circle with the hole which took the cords tying the document closed clearly visible from top to bottom. One face has the relief busts of St Peter (on the right) and St Paul (on the left). They have the usual distinguishing features; St Paul has a high forehead, straight hair and a pointed beard, and St Peter has curly hair and beard both made up of pellets. They are both within a border of pellets and in between is a cross on a long stem. Above is the inscription SPA SPE. On the other face is the inscription BONI / FATIUS /…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRAISEWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8298
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead papal bulla, now sharply bent; the bend has caused stress to the metal. On one face are the busts of St Peter (on the right) and St Paul (on the left) with the usual distinguishing features; St Paul has a high forehead, straight hair and a pointed beard, and St Peter has hair and beard made up of pellets. Each is in a pelleted border, with the inscription SPA SPE just visible above and a cross just visible in between. On the other face is the name of the issuing pope; M - R / TINVS / PP IIII for Martin IV (ruled 1281-5). The letters have curly serifs. Bulls were attached to papal…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8291
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 11th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8282
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular buckle frame with central bar. 35 mm in diameter, it is pentagonal in section with bevelled edges on the upper face and a flat reverse. The narrow bar has a small piece of corrosion adhering, which may be the remains of an iron pin. Probably late medieval or early post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 8th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8287
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Initial E made from cast copper-alloy, possibly from a memorial brass. The letter is well formed and Lombardic in shape, having a curved back and a vertical line closing the loop at the front. The vertical line has a little curved projection at top and bottom. The letter is slightly convex, and is rough on the reverse and more polished on the upper surface. It measures 37 mm long and is 33 mm wide, and is a maximum of 3 mm thick. The use of a Lombardic E may suggest a 13th- or 14th-century date. Single letters from memorial brasses are uncommon; the usual technique was to cast wh…
Created on: Friday 8th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8266
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Maidenhead knop and fragment of stem from a spoon, made from gilded silver. The stem is a flat hexagon in cross-section and has a triple collar at the top. The knop is modelled in the round; there is no fine detail but it is unclear whether the knop is worn or whether this is the result of the original casting. The hair is long and loose, and there is a relief saltire across the back of the head which may represent a loose tying back of the hair. The arms are bent at right angles to form the bottom of the knop, but the right forearm is missing and this is almost certainly the resul…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LITTLE CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8243
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of everted rim from a cast copper-alloy cooking vessel. The fragment is roughly triangular, with the longest edge formed by the angle between the body of the vessel and the rim. There are then two tapering breaks which run out to the edge of the rim, a short length of which survives. There is some sooting on the outside of the rim, and a brownish-white deposit on the inside which looks like solder.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HAWKEDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8247
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small but three-dimensional copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a strap. 23 mm long, each flat rounded end has a rivet hole blocked by iron corrosion. Between the terminals the mount is triangular in cross-section. Below one of the terminals is a stylised animal head with grooved eyes, a broad pointed nose and open jaws. Beyond the open jaws the mount has, on each facet, a moulded triangle decorated with oblique grooves; these increase the width to the maximum of 8.5 mm. Beyond these, and just before the other terminal, the section changes briefly to a tall triangle, increasing the t…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Badlingham'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8251
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy barb-spring padlock. The case survives nearly complete, measuring 29 mm long; in cross-section it is nearly circular, 13 mm in diameter, but is slightly facetted to form an octagon. Although it is encrusted with hard soil and corrosion products, a pair of grooves can be seen around one end and one of the lower facets has oblique groove decoration. The inside of the case is filled with iron corrosion, perhaps from the springs. The hasp rises from the undecorated end of the case, and is L-shaped, extending outwards beyond the end of the case. It appears to hav…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8252
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Very large cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. The leg is V-shaped in cross-section and is incomplete, with the upper part missing. There is a moulded ridge across the ankle, and the foot consists of five toes which increase in size towards the middle. The leg is poorly cast, with a rough surface, lots of tiny holes and a big crack across the underside of the foot.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF8253
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy purse frame of very slender dimensions. It is circular in cross-section, 2 mm in diameter, and curves smoothly; if unbent, its length would be c. 105 mm, but in its curved shape it is more like 73 mm. There is a groove running along the inside which is probably indicative of its hammered construction. One rounded terminal survives, flattened and pierced with a 2 mm diameter hole. Close to the terminal are two pairs of grooves which run all the way around the frame. Close to the broken end is a flat projecting pierced lug, in which a 6 mm diameter ring made o…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LAWSHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8255
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy rod, D-shaped in cross-section, broken at a rivet hole at both ends. One end is undecorated, but the other has moulded decoration of transverse ridges, oval depressions arranged in a chevron, and V-shaped grooves. It has corroded to a deep brown colour. Although similar mounts are known from the 12th century onwards, from the decoration (which is reminiscent of early post-med book clasps) this one should perhaps be dated relatively late.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8256
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large jug handle, of Essex type medieval coarse ware. It is 65 mm wide at the top, where it joins the body of the pot. 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8265
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8239
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a shield. Within a border the centre of the shield is sunken for enamel. Most of the space is taken up with a counter-relief butterfly. This has an oval head with pointed top, with a sunken oval cell in the centre with two pellet eyes. To either side are long antennae, and below is the body which is made up of four cells to give a transversely striped effect. The wings have three rounded cells in each lower half, and three rounded cells below a long curved cell and a small triangular cell in each upper half. Above the shield is a comp…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8236
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large toy jug made from lead. It has an oval base but the body is now a little crushed and distorted. There is a narrow long handle which runs from just below the rim; the neck is not clearly distinguished, merely continuing the slight taper of the body. There is low-relief decoration of a horizontal line below the 'neck' and vertical lines running from this to the base; it is clearer on one side than the other. A slight vertical casting flash can be seen on the opposite side to the handle. Parallels (e.g. Egan 1998, no. 932) tend to be smaller. It is copying a jug form of the 13…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8234
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Composite type strap-end, made from two sheets of copper alloy. The strap-end is 52.5 mm long, and tapers from 13.5 mm wide at the attachment end to 11.5 mm wide just before the terminal. The terminal is 17 mm long and has elaborately cut-out sides forming a trefoil on a long stem, with two transverse lobes crossing the stem. There is a single copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end and another at the terminal. One of the plates is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment end, and an untidy line of rocker-arm extending from this towards the terminal. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8226
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8229
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny annular brooch frame made of silver with gilding on all faces. Circular and 14 mm in diameter, it is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat reverse. There are two longitudinal oval settings on the frame, each retaining a tiny purple cabochon-cut stone, perhaps an amethyst. From each end of the setting a long transversely ribbed neck emerges, curving around to form the circle, and ending in an animal head which has moulded ears and moulded and dotted circle eyes. Between one pair of heads is a flattened and expanded rounded pin rest, which has decoration of radiating grooves and…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8219
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large rectangular copper-alloy mount, measuring 45 x 32 mm. Each of the corners has decorative cut-outs, which meet in the centre of the short edges with a V-shaped cut-out which runs into the interior of the mount as a groove. In the centre of the mount is a circular hole 5 mm in diameter, and in each corner is a separate 4 mm long copper-alloy rivet. The mount is decorated with lines of rocker-arm engraving; between each rivet and the short edge is a short line of rocker-arm parallel to the edge, and the rest of the space on the mount is filled with four rocker-arm saltires. The …
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8202
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap fitting, perhaps a buckle or perhaps a looped mount. It consists of an oval frame or loop, 12 mm wide and 14 mm long, with an integral plate or mount 12 mm long which flares from 7 mm wide at its junction with the loop to 9 mm wide at the far end. The plate has two holes set longitudinally. The object may be a buckle, with one hole for a pin and one for a rivet; originally it was thought to be an incomplete double-looped buckle with central plate (as Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 488, thought to be from a spur) but it is now clear that the far end of the plate is an…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8203
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8205
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular pilgrim's badge made from lead, now bent and torn. One corner is incomplete, and the other three show slight expansion towards their missing attachment loops; otherwise the badge is complete. It is decorated with a central motif of St Paul (with a pointed beard and bald forehead) on the left, and St Peter (with a rounded beard and curly hair) on the right. Both saints are nimbed and dressed in flowing robes, and both hold their symbol obliquely in their outer hand. St Paul holds a sword (symbol of his martyrdom by beheading), and St Peter holds a large key with the el…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8218
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Slightly irregular circular lead seal matrix, 20-21 mm in diameter. The reverse is decorated with an asymmetrical design of curving relief lines, and has an unpierced lug close to one edge. On the front, the central motif is a crescent moon and star. Around is an inscription reading something like * S ICCSEMOW - the second C may alternatively be an E or G, the E is very uncertain, and the M may instead be an H. The letters are not well spaced or sized. No suggestion can be given for what the inscription means, but the initial S presumably stands for Seal of.. and so the seal matri…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8192
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and crushed large copper-alloy key. Most of the bow is missing and the original shape cannot be reconstructed. There is a moulding at the junction of the bow and the stem; the stem was originally hollow, and is now squashed and split with the very end missing. The bit is elaborate, with a deep cleft perpendicular to the stem which divides it into two; both halves have further shorter clefts and channels. The closest parallel in Egan 1998 is no. 313, which was excavated from a late 13th/early 14th century context. Surviving length 67 mm, 'width' (top of stem to base of bit) …
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8193
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead seal matrix, 26 mm in diameter and flat with a 4 mm wide pierced lug (broken at the hole) extending from the top. There is no decoration on the reverse. The central motif is a sunken triangle presumably intended as a shield; there is no charge (heraldic decoration) on the shield. The engraving around is shallow but well formed and clear; it reads + S' ROGER' FILII ADE (Seal of Roger son of Adam, or Adamson). There is a small space-filling design after the E of Ade. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ASHBOCKING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8195
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval and with an offset (but not narrowed) bar. The outer edge is long and extended in the centre into a rectangular plate which is slightly shaped and curved along its interior edge. The plate is decorated with nine deep transverse grooves which cross three shallower longitudinal grooves. On the reverse is a faint longitudinal line with filemarks between this and the outer edge. The bar has a central constriction for the pin. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8196
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8194
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval and with an offset narrowed bar. The outer edge swells to a sub-circular cross-section. It is decorated with a pair of grooves to either side of a grooved pin rest, a pair of oblique grooves at either end of the outer edge, and a pair of oblique grooves at either end of the bar. There also appears to be a faint groove along the base of the pin rest.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.