Record ID: NMS-09EC59
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete long silver ingot of slightly irregular shape, but with a clear rounded top and slightly flattened underside. It has one neatly rounded end, 11mm wide and 5.8mm thick. One long edge runs roughly at right angles to this end, and the other long edge flares slightly. The maximum width of 13.5mm is close to the other end, and here there is a rounded angle, with the ingot tapering steeply to meet the other long edge in a rounded point. The ingot is sub-triangular or drop-shaped in cross-section, with the long straight edge being thicker and the top then …
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-09AD0E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver strip, probably a finger-ring, now in two pieces (broken during discovery). It is bent out of shape but appears to originally have been circular, with half of the circle surviving (c. 20mm in original diameter). The strip has a consistent width of 4.5mm to 5mm (perhaps depending on how worn the edges are) and is a low D-shape in cross-section, 1.0mm thick. There is no decoration on either the convex exterior or the flat interior. One of the ends (on the smaller fragment) is neatly cut across and finished, and although the other is more rounded and possibly wo…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A663EC
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three worn William III shillings. 1) Minted 1696 in Bristol (B below bust). Weight 5.58g. Spink 3498. Far left on photo. 2) Minted 1697, worn bust, weight 5.61g. Spink 3505. Centre on photo. 3) Minted 1697, less wear on bust, weight 5.71g. Spink 3505. Far right on photo.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6FB233
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age awl. One end is flat in cross-section, and gradually thickens to a circular cross-section of diameter 3mm about halfway down the object. It is slightly bent here, causing stress to the metal and loss of the surface. From here it tapers to a point. Where the surface is lost, the colour is a matt green; where the surface survives it is a polished dark brown. Length (as bent) 52mm, maximum width (at flat end) 5mm, maximum thickness 3mm, weight 3.17g. Similar awls were made throughout the middle and late Bronze Age, but the dark brown patina suggests a middle Bronze Age da…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5501D3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small casket key, quite flat and carelessly made. The bow is circular, with a casting flaw leading to an internal thickening opposite the stem. The stem has a collar at the junction with the bow; the bow is oval-section and the pointed tip projects beyond the bit. The bit is rectangular and flat, and has a square cleft cut into the rear edge and two similar clefts cut into the leading edge. 45mm long, bow 15.5mm in diameter, 3mm thick at most. It weighs 5.61g and probably dates to the medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-54E13B
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring with dark green polished surface. It is 20mm in diameter externally and with a central hole 11mm in diameter. The ring is 5mm thick where best preserved; in other places, corrosion has removed some of the surface. In cross-section it is kite-shaped, with an acutely pointed arris around the exterior and a more gentle angle in the central hole. It weighs 6.21g. Rings of these proportions have been dated to the late Bronze Age (e.g. WILT-7BCF7B, with references), or Iron Age to Roman periods (e.g. SOM-7EDF21, WILT-CDE753, HAMP-E3F5BC).
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-54A298
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One is shorter than the other and is smoothly polished; the other is much rougher and may have been a central spacer plate rather than a backplate. It is bent and one end is broken. The surviving end is cut into curved shoulders and then a relatively long terminal ending in a quatrefoil. The sheets are joined by a copper-alloy rivet through the quatrefoil. Surviving length 26mm, width 7mm, weight 0.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-52F3BA
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Roman furniture knob. It consists of a globular head 12mm in diameter, with the corroded remains of an iron shaft protruding from one side which brings the overall length up to 14mm. It weighs 7.06g. The patina is dark grey-green and quite shiny. It can be compared with SF-365DD1, LIN-146752, SUR-E8FC02, SUR-B519D6 and SUR-2309BF.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5203E7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy pin head and fragment of shaft, probably of Roman date, now very worn. The head is biconical, but the upper half might also be described as pyramidal, as it is irregular in shape when viewed from above, measuring about 7 x 6mm. It has the hint of a tiny boss in the centre of the top and there are faint traces of lines radiating from the boss over the upper half. There is no obvious collar between head and shaft. The shaft appears almost rectangular in cross-section, measuring 3 x 2 mm. The break is worn. The head makes up about half of the fragment, the shaft the other ha…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-51C906
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with incomplete loop. It is shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a point; the corners are now all worn and rounded. The shield (without loop) now measures 29mm long by 26mm wide. The loop is angled slightly forwards, flat on the reverse, and is pierced from side to side with a circular hole; it is now broken through this hole. No trace of any decoration survives on the shield, which is now only 1.5mm thick at most. The surviving total length is 35.5mm and the maximum width, at the broken loop, is 5mm. It weighs 5.58g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EE0583
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded late 11th- or 12th-century copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. It is basically a short, wide rectangle with geometric decoration consisting of three wide flat-topped transverse (vertical) ridges dividing the mount into four gilded fields. These are decorated with closely spaced shallowly oblique grooves, alternating in direction field by field. Hints of grooves and gilding on the edges of the ridges suggest that both types of decoration carried on over them. The edges and corners of the rectangle are now worn and rounded. It is 28.5mm wide, a maximum of 16mm tall a…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EDA14D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower bow and foot from a Roman brooch of Hod Hill type, c. 43-70 AD. It is broken at a narrowed waist with two transverse flutes across just below the break, the upper one slightly wider than the lower one. Here the cross-section is a very flat D-shape, but the lower bow is a long and very flat-section triangle, tapering downwards and decorated with a fine groove down either long edge. The wider upper edge has a beaded ridge across it, and the foot ends at the base in another transverse ridge, this time unbeaded, with a broad transverse groove or flute below and a moulding to finish,…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-ED4D80
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn copper-alloy buckle of 15th- or 16th-century date. It is shaped like a five-petalled rose, with five long lobes separated by indentations forming a flattish circular frame. It has a central circular-section bar, and the lobes are arranged so that one forms the centre of one outside edge and the opposite outside edge has two meeting at its centre. Brown patina. Width 29mm, length 30mm, thickness of frame 1mm, weight 4.4g.
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-ED09F2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's form B20, made from a bar and fragmentary plate cast in one piece. The narrow rectangular bar is now very worn, but can be seen to be decorated with four groups of two or three transverse grooves, one set at either end and the others fairly equally spaced in the centre. There also appears to be a row of tiny annulet or crescent stamps running down either long edge. The bar measures 41mm long and 4mm wide. Part of the plate survives, with similar tiny annulet stamps along the edge by the bar and along the surviving edg…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NFAHG-C241B0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix with socket, for producing cloth seals (alnage seals). The die itself is circular and 29mm in diameter. In side view, the matrix rises vertically from the die for about 3mm then begins to taper with a slightly concave curve to an open end 19-20mm in external diameter. The matrix is overall 14mm thick and weighs 39.0g. There are two small bumps on the outside, very close to the socket's edge, which are surrounded by iron staining and which may be the remains of iron nails fastening a wooden handle. These are not quite opposite each other; one is above the C …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Record ID: FAHG-C743A5
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete toy gridiron with fish, made from a lead/tin alloy (pewter) with a patina which is shiny in patches. The gridiron is basically rectangular but slightly trapezoidal, flaring from the handle end; it has six bars of equal thickness and triangular cross-section parallel to the handle, and a similar transverse bar to either end. The longer transverse bar has a backwards-curving hook to either end, one now crushed. The shorter transverse bar, at the handle end, is decorated with oblique ribbing giving a cabled effect. This bar has an angular U-shaped arrangement at either end as if…
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
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Record ID: SF6985
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver shilling of William III.
Created on: Monday 10th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-64D062
Object type: RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ring made from plaited silver wire. Each strand of the plait basically consists of six wires, although in places due to the ending of various strands this drops to five or four. The wires in each strand are neatly parallel. The sides of the ring are not straight; they are C-shaped in cross-section, with the exterior of the ring convex and the interior concave. The ring is now slightly squashed, and measures 20 x 16.5 mm externally and 4 mm deep. Similar rings made of plaited groups of silver wires are known across the country; they vary in size, shape and tightness of plait. Where the…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 13th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9244
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 9th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STANTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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