Record ID: SF8971
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EYE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8927
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is long and thin, and in excellent condition, with a very fresh break at one end and what appears to be an animal head at the other. At the broken end it is almost pentagonal in section, with four facetted faces and the fifth filled with a U-shaped groove. The apex of the pentagon has tiny transverse nicks and this forms the back of the animal's neck; the nicks may represent a mane. The grooved underside is almost flat, but the back of the neck is more steeply humped into a brow, with a conical ear or horn projec…
Created on: Monday 15th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8884
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy brooch of La Tene I type, in very fragile condition. Two coils of the spring are visible, but much obscured by a lump of iron corrosion which is probably from an iron axis bar. The metal then flares and flattens into an oval or leaf-shaped bow, which is cracked across near to the top. The bow is decorated with a broad short flute in the centre, then a narrow groove to either side; these are then flanked with a pair of longer broad flutes and then finally a narrow groove border. A short length of rocker-arm engraving is visible on the lower part of the central flu…
Created on: Friday 5th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BENTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8686
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy vessel mount in the shape of a stylised bull's head. The neck is long and curving, and broken at the lower end (fresh break). It flares slightly from the break and has a flaring groove running up the reverse, which forms an indentation on the top of the head. To either side of the head horns project, outwards at first but then curving up to become vertical (one is bent slightly backwards). Each one is circular in cross-section, and tapers as it rises; they end in a slight waist and then a flattened knob terminal. The nose of the bull is short and square-ended, w…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8699
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mini-terret, very corroded but complete. The hoop is circular or oval in cross-section, tapering from oval stops, the least corroded of which measures 9 x 8 mm. The bar is rectangular in section and 6 mm long. There is no decoration surviving.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8197
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete La Tene III brooch, made from a single piece of copper alloy. The top of the bow, the spring and much of the pin survive but the foot and the tip of the pin are missing. The bow is flat and a maximum of 7 mm wide. It is decorated with a fine longitudinal groove down either side, but in between most of the surface has been corroded away and so no other decoration is visible. At the top of the bow it narrows to a rectangular section which is wound into a four-coil spring, with the chord passing under the spring. Longitudinal striations are visible on the coils. It then n…
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: SF7989
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
About half of a terret with a rounded hoop which retains one (of perhaps an original three) 'lip' mouldings. The bar is sub-rectangular in section and is tall and narrow; it is bent at one end just before an old and worn break. At the other end is a diminutive oval stop measuring 8 x 9 mm. The circular-section hoop then rises from the other face of the stop, and tapers as it curves around. At the widest point of the terret is the 'lip' moulding. This consists of a longitudinally set oval moulding on the outer edge, with a broad V-shaped groove set transversely across it looking like a…
Created on: Monday 28th January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOWUPLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7961
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of terret, of flat-ringed type. The bar is slightly trapezoidal in cross-section (10 mm tall, 3 mm wide at the bottom and 4.5 mm wide at the top) and has an old break a little way along. The surviving stop is nearly circular, 17 mm from top to bottom and 18 mm from side to side, and is 4 to 5 mm thick; there are faint traces of a groove just inside each edge of the stop. The hoop tapers from 14 mm tall as it leaves the other side of the stop, to 8 mm wide at the old break. It is triangular in section, 5.5 to 4 mm thick at the inner edge and rounded at the outer edge. Close to…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ASHFIELD CUM THORPE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7566
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is rectangular in cross-section, but otherwise hard to describe. There is one wider flatter end (16 x 3 mm), and then one long edge has a straight taper and the other is incurved. It becomes narrower and thicker, reaching 4.5 mm thick and 6 mm wide in the centre. The incurved edge continues its line, but gains a central longitudinal groove. The straight edge follows the line of the curved edge. The object continues to thicken to a maximum thickness of 10 mm, and the width increases to 9 mm; this almost square-section end has some poss…
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: SF7546
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of terret of unusual shape. Part of the rectangular-section bar survives, and measures 6.5 x 3 mm in cross-section at the unworn break. The single surviving stop is 11.5 mm in diameter, and from its top emerges a second bar which continues the curving line of the stop's arc. This runs parallel with the bar, and presumably held a strap which fixed the terret to the yoke. It also ends in an unworn break. The hoop survives much more poorly, and is now not much more than a blunt point; it tapers from the stop to a very worn break.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK KESSINGLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7516
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Colchester one-piece brooch made from copper alloy. Upper half only, with stubs of wings, forward-facing hook and spring. Very corroded, with no surface surviving. The remains of the wings are rectangular in cross-section; the bow is oval in cross-section, and tapers and curves to the break. There is no surviving decoration on either wings or bow. Surviving length 31 mm, surviving width 9 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7411
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete La Tene I brooch, missing end of foot, pin and most of spring (old breaks). Half of the first coil of the spring survives, and has some iron staining. This then swells out and arches up into a heavy solid oval-section bow, at its most measuring 5 x 7 mm in cross-section. There is no decoration on the bow. The bow then tapers and curves back down again to form the foot. This has a grooved extension to one side which forms the catch for the pin; beyond this it begins to curve back up again towards a broken-off terminal. Total surviving length 49 mm, height of curved bow …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7119
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Foot of brooch. Relatively wide, flat and with vertical grooved decoration, the brooch type could be either Langton Down or Rosette; a remoter possibility is a Lion Bow brooch, but these are rare with fluted feet. The decoration is now worn or corroded, but appears to have consisted of five broad parallel flutes. In some of the deeper flutes there is a dark grey colour which may be the remains of a white-metal coating. Both ends are broken, so it is impossible to tell whether the foot was flaring (like most Rosettes) or tapering (like most Langton Downs). There are the remains of a…
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6712
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper-alloy mirror handle, now very corroded, with many tiny holes in the metal. In the centre of the fragment is a transverse oval disc measuring 17 x 18 mm, which is decorated with a groove around its circumference. From the bottom of this disc the handle tapers to a waist and then flares out again into a bifurcation. Each half is circular in section and ends in a fresh break which shows many small holes. From the top of the central disc the handle again tapers to a waist, and then flares again; there is a V-shaped groove here giving the effect of another bifurc…
Created on: Friday 7th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6657
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catchplate and terminal from a La Tene I brooch. The bow is broken off just as it begins to rise from the catchplate; the break is old. The terminal then turns at a slightly sharper than 90 degree angle, passing through a rounded knob before ending in a second similar knob with a depression, perhaps once enamelled, on its end. The dimensions are small; the catchplate is 14 mm long, the circular-section terminal measures just3 mm in diameter between the knobs, and the knobs are oval in section, 6 x 7 mm for the lower one and 7 x 8 mm for the upper.
Created on: Friday 24th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SUDBURY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6589
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object which has a distinctly Iron Age feel to it. It is basically a copper-alloy ring 29 mm in diameter. The cross-section is oval and measures 4 x 5 mm, though at one point it is worn internally to 4 x 4 mm. There appear to be three narrow, roughly circular-section projections running in towards the centre, all of which are broken; they are set unevenly around the ring and half of the ring's circuit is plain with no projection. The longest of the projections curves slightly and they presumably formed a curvilinear openwork pattern in the centre. The ring has a shiny…
Created on: Monday 20th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6518
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold quarter stater, of Hobbs's 'Central Eastern Gold Attributed to Addedomaros' type (Hobbs 1996, 2417-21). The only variation from the standard type is that there is a pellet-in-ring below the horse's tail, rather than the usual ring. Van Arsdell (1989, nos. 1623-1) catalogues the type as Trinovantian, Addedomaros second coinage, 37-33 BC, but his dates are notoriously over-precise and a range of mid to late first century BC is to be preferred. The coin is of reddish gold; the slightly convex obverse is a little worn but the concave reverse is very clear.
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PRESTON ST MARY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5671
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary copper-alloy object which may be a La Tene III brooch. It consists of a thin sub-rectangular sheet, one end rounded and the other end more rectilinear, which has a gentle longitudinal curve and some more recent bends. At the more rectilinear end is a extension ending in a point. The underside of this extension expands to an incurved end. This may represent a catchplate, making the object a very worn and incomplete La Tene III brooch, with a rectilinear plate similar to Hattatt no. 242. The plate has no surviving decoration, but as it is extremely worn and corroded this…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5657
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sherd from shoulder of a wide-mouthed jar. Of 'Belgic' fabric, perhaps grog-tempered, with strong 'sandwich' effect - a thin dark grey/brown surface layer over a thin red layer, with a thick mid grey/brown centre. Decorated with two raised cordons set in grooves, one at the angle between the rounded shoulder and the upright rim, and the other further down the shoulder. Late Iron Age or early Roman, first century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5462
Object type: BUCKET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy handle escutcheon, probably from a wooden bucket, in the shape of a bull's head. On top of the head is a rounded projection with circular perforation for the handle; this has a step a little like a countersinking around the edge on the outer surface which may have been caused by wear. Below this, the bull's head has two beautiful large pointed horns, not identically curved, with a low relief band between them to form the brow. There is a slight ridge above and parallel to this band. To either side of the horns is a small rounded projection which is decorated with short…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.