Record ID: SF9100
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, now incomplete. The top survives, with a smooth curved surface which could be soldered to the body of the vessel. The reverse is flat, but the front is lumpy and it is hard to see any deliberate design features. There is some sooting on all surfaces including the top. The break is old and worn.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9101
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of body from a cast copper-alloy vessel. All edges are broken, but are now fairly smooth and corroded. The metal is a very dark brown, almost black, and the exterior is rougher and less highly finished than the interior.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9102
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical rivet made from rolled-up copper-alloy sheet. The wider end has been hammered to give a slightly burred-over end, and the tip is corroded and blunt and may be incomplete. Diameter at head, 8-9 mm; length, 22 mm. This type of rivet appears to have been used on medieval and early post-medieval kitchen utensils such as cooking vessels and strainers.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9103
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy oval disc, now very corroded, measuring 39 x 35 mm. Very slightly convex, it is decorated on the outer face with a border of circular stamps, running all of the way around the edge and enclosing seven transverse rows of similar stamps. There are no stamps at the top - at least one if not two rows are missing - and here there is a roughly cut, or perhaps worn, oblique oval hole. This seems to have neater edges on the reverse, and so may have been cut from this side. The decoration dates it to the medieval period. This object is about the right size for a horse-h…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9080
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One arm from a copper-alloy purse bar of LMMC Types B6-8, Williams Class H1. In the centre is a small rectangular block with a circular perforation through it; this is now broken across the perforation. The surviving arm is circular in cross-section (just over 3 mm in diameter) and quite short; it ends in a conical boss 11 mm in diameter. Total surviving length 33 mm. Types B6-8 are thought to date to the early to mid 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9081
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pot mend, neat and sub-circular (19 mm diameter) on one face and large, lumpy and crude on the other. A fragment of pot wall survives in the narrow waist between the two halves; this is probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9082
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Pin from an annular brooch, made from cast copper alloy. It is sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners, measuring 3.5 mm wide and 4 mm thick. The loop is open and measures 10.5 mm across. There is a vague hint of a moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, but the pin is quite corroded and it is hard to tell if it was always so faint as to be hardly visible. The tip is tilted up and the underside is cut or worn away so that it can sit nicely on the frame. Total length 43 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9083
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular frame made from copper alloy, from a buckle or from a strap clasp. The bar is rectangular in section with visible filemarks. The sides are thickened with a transverse moulding at either end. The outer edge is narrowed with the remains of a separate sheet roller (if a buckle) or rotating end (if a clasp).
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9084
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, now bent in half. Originally it was rectangular, with a surviving unbent length of c. 32 mm, and tapering from 14 mm wide at the broken hinge loops to 13 mm wide at the attachment end. There is a pin slot and frame recesses, and just behind these are two separate copper-alloy rivets with knobbed heads. There are two further rivet holes at the attachment end (one now incomplete). The plate is worn and corroded, but some decoration can be made out; there appear to be curving double chevrons, each with a row of circular punchmarks between the two line…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9085
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped copper-alloy buckle frame, both loops oval. The bar projects beyond the frame, and each outer edge is pointed externally to accommodate what ought to be a relief rosette; the rosette is in fact so simplified that it is just a grooved oval. The bar is bent and worn in the centre.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9086
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped copper-alloy buckle frame, both loops oval with pointed outer edges. The buckle is angled about the bar and there is iron corrosion on the bar and on one outer edge. In other places there are patches of dark grey patina, perhaps from a white-metal coating. At one end of the bar, the buckle frame has split through its thickness and one loop has broken. This is an odd place to split and perhaps indicates a point of weakness due to the construction method.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9087
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy key, missing its bit. The bow is circular internally, but externally is decorated with a pair of stylised three-dimensional animal heads, one on each side, which appear to be gripping the far end of the bow in their mouths. The stem is octagonally facetted. It begins with a short rounded section, which is divided from the rest of the stem by a ridge. Beyond this, about 15 mm of the stem is solid, and then it has an off-centre longitudinal hole which has broken through on one side. Total surviving length 56.5 mm. The metal is a very pale, but apparently stable, grey-green.…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9088
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring 28 mm in diameter, with an oval or slightly facetted hexagonal cross-section measuring about 1-1.5 x 2 mm. With a dark brown patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9089
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring, a slightly uneven 23-4 mm in diameter. In cross-section it is oval or slightly facetted hexagonally, with one face being much flatter than the other; the cross-section measures about 1 x 2 mm. There are many uncleaned casting flashes around both internal and external edges. With a corroded green patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9090
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. The die is shield-shaped, measuring 14 x 13 mm, with a straight top and convex sides meeting at a point; on the reverse there is a hexagonally facetted conical handle which rises to the stubs of a broken-off perforated terminal. The surviving height is 13 mm. The die is very battered and it is hard to make out the engraved design. It appears to have a chief with a design which is hard to make out; it appears to be a finely engraved frieze but there are occasional shield-shaped seal matrices which have a short inscription here. Below, the main part of the …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9091
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One terminal and fragment of side, from a slender copper-alloy spur. The fragment of side is biconvex in cross-section, with the outer side being more highly curved than the inner. It measures 3.5 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick at the break, then flares very slightly to join the figure-8 terminal at an angle at one of the circular loops. This loop has a V-shaped projection in the angle between the side and the terminal. Now corroded to a rough brown colour. 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9092
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny strap-slide made from copper alloy, with a single integral external rivet with a burred-over end. It is trapezoidal, measuring 9 mm wide at the edge with the rivet and 10 mm wide at the opposite edge. Each edge is roughly triangular or trapezoidal in cross-section, and has visible filemarks, so it is quite well-made despite its tiny size. Length of loop 9 mm; total length 13 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9093
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped relief-decorated openwork mount made from copper alloy. The design consists of a central cross made up of five large pellets, surrounded by a ring of smaller pellets with perforations in the angles of the cross. To either side a single large pellet projects, and to either end is a trefoil of large pellets. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes. It is corroded to a rough purple-brown. This type of mount is superficially quite similar to a type of lozengiform openwork late Anglo-Saxon brooch, and together with ball-headed pins and hooked tags forms a clas…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9094
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead spindle whorl, 28-29 mm in diameter and 12.5 mm tall, with a central circular perforation which tapers from 12 mm in diameter at the base to 10 mm in diameter at the top. The flattish base originally had a wide groove hollowed out around the perforation, but part of this has been scraped away recently, probably by agricultural machinery. The sides are fairly straight and the top is rounded, with two older scrapes across it.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9095
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead 'spindle whorl', plano-convex in shape. The maximum diameter is 35 mm close to the base, which has a hollowed-out centre with a perforation in the centre. The perforation is circular and tapers from 13 mm in diameter at the base to 9 mm diameter at the top. The upper part of the object is domed and undecorated, and it is 19 mm tall. Although these objects are known as spindle whorls, this one seems far too large and heavy for this; it may be a general-purpose weight. Undatable.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.