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

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

Record ID: SF9155
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform brooch made from copper alloy, now missing its foot (fresh break). The headplate is small and pentagonal, having a straight lower edge but cutaway corners on the upper edge. It is decorated with a double-strand engraved saltire and on the reverse has a single pin bar lug with extensive traces of the iron spring. The upper knob is full-round and has a double collar below; the side knobs are simple and flattish with no collars. None of the knobs is particularly well made. The bow is narrow (only 6 mm wide) but quite long and highly arched. It begins with an undecorated fl…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Record ID: SF9156
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end. One end is split, and closed by a pair of bright shiny silver rivets. Below this is a 'fan-shaped' panel containing a 'trilobate' motif - a semi-circular sunken area filled with three counter-relief shapes, originally foliate - and then a further sunken panel filled with a counter-relief Trewhiddle-style animal. The animal is not particularly well drawn; its head is in profile at the top, with a large erect ear, dot eye, squared-off nose and a line for a mouth. A substantial body below is interwoven with narrow thread-like interlace, presumably representing the …
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 3rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIMPOLE', grid reference and parish protected.

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

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

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

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

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

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