Record ID: SF9064
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Narrow copper-alloy spike, circular in cross-section and tapering from 3 mm in diameter at the wider end. A transverse slot 2 mm wide has been formed near this end, pushing the metal out slightly to either side. There is also a tiny projection from the centre of the wider end. Although it is now worn and corroded, there are traces of gilding on the surface. The wear and corrosion make it difficult to tell if the wider end is original or broken; the projection may suggest that it is original. The condition has also revealed some fine longitudinal ridges which may be the result of t…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9065
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is the shape of a modern split pin, with an expanded loop 11 mm wide. The cross-section at the loop is 5 mm wide and flat, but as the loop tapers into the shafts the cross-section becomes narrower and thicker before flattening again to the now bent and distorted points. Length as now bent, 44 mm. The condition of the metal is peculiar; pale grey with orange patches, it looks almost like iron but does not react to a magnet. Date unknown; possibly modern.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9066
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large biconical lead steelyard weight. Its maximum diameter is 40 mm and the lead part is 47 mm long, with a flattened area at either end. One of the cones is marginally shorter than the other (24.5 mm and 22.5 mm). The addition of a well-preserved U-shaped iron loop at one end brings the total length up to 54 mm. It weighs 288g.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9056
Object type: SPATULA
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flattish spatula-like object made from copper alloy, with the remains of a very slender handle (1 x 0.5 mm in cross-section) at one end of a pointed oval blade. The blade, or bowl, is slightly asymmetrical in shape and very slightly concave; it is now crumpled. The metal has a dark green patina with some of the metal showing through. It seems possible that this object was cut down from a teaspoon of 18th- or 19th-century date, although there is no definite characteristic of this period such as a rat-tail on the back of the bowl. Alternatively it is just possibly of Roman date.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9057
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, consisting of a solid globular end and a perforated lug. The solid end is flattened slightly on both sides, so that it is 12 mm wide and 14 mm thick; the top is cut off to make a rectangular platform making the length 13 mm. The rectangular-section lug emerges from one end of the platform, flaring from 4.5 mm wide at this end to 7 mm wide at the far end and also flattening slightly. It has a faint grooved border on at least one face, and at the wider end is a circular perforation 2.5 mm in diameter. The addition of the lug brings the length …
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9042
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead seal matrix, 31 mm in diameter. At the top is a suspension loop turned at right angles to the plane of the matrix, and looking very much like the loop of a horse-harness pendant. The central motif is a horse-shoe, formed from a U-shaped groove with four deeper blobs on each half. The blobs may all represent nails, or may represent three nails and a calkin on each half. The inscription is well engraved, evenly spaced and easy to read: + SIGILL GERARDI HORSSO. Richard Coates of the University of Sussex has commented that this is probably a surname alluding to a trade, r…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9043
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from lead alloy. It consists of an oval plate, one face with rounded edges and ?hammer marks, and one face flat with oblique grooves and striations. Cast onto the latter face is an asymmetric cross, each arm also with longitudinal striations which cross in the centre. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STETCHWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9045
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle plate, now incomplete but originally rectangular. It now measures 22 mm wide by 20 mm long, and has the remains of two hinge loops. Across the centre are three closely spaced, prominent and not especially decorative rivets. Most of one side is missing. Such a simple buckle is hard to date, but is probably medieval.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9046
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated copper-alloy plate from a strap-end, now rather crumpled. The attachment end is incurved and 14 mm wide; there are two rivet holes here. The closed end is cut into a truncated triangle and has a third rivet hole which retains a clumsily made (perhaps replacement) copper-alloy rivet. The reverse has oblique filemarks and perhaps the remains of some solder. The upper face has engraved curvilinear decoration, perhaps of an animal or pair of animals. The lines are made up of short punchmarks, a technique characteristic of medieval ornament.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9047
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy mount in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a wolf. Hollow on the reverse, it has two perforations for eyes in the centre and a third similarly sized rivet hole above. The brow, through which the third rivet hole passes, is cross-hatched, and there is an upright ear to either side. Each ear is emphasised by a groove. The brow is roughly rectangular and is divided from the rest of the head by a groove. The face then tapers to a triangular nose, below which is an open mouth with slightly damaged jaws. The mount is reminiscent of the more common crowned-head mou…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9044
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9038
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy sprue cap waster with remains of four casting runners and with two distinctly coloured remnants of fired clay between the runners. From the underside, a straight line clearly separates the differently coloured clays, with about two-thirds being of a rusty red-brown and dark brown, the other third being a pale grey-brown. A smaller area of this paler clay lies between the runners and the top of the sprue cap. The copper alloy is patinated a medium to dark green. It is impossible to be sure of the date, but the sprue cap itself is paralleled by numerous examples used for…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9041
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The head is rectangular, measuring 20 mm wide by 18 mm long, and is decorated with a double row of punchmarks around three edges. Each punchmark consists of a crescent around a dot, and may have been made by holding a ring-and-dot punch at an angle. There is a just-discernable engraved line between the two rows, and the punchmarks each have their straight edge towards this groove. On the reverse of the head is a single pin bar lug now blocked with iron corrosion. The lower edge of the head has no decoration, and the bow springs from…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9048
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small and flimsy copper-alloy mount in the shape of a six-petalled flower. In between the petals are panels decorated with tiny pellets, and there is a rivet hole in the centre. Each of the petals is slightly hollowed on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9049
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. Roughly rectangular, it has eight lobes or petals which are hollow on the reverse, and a central hole which retains a large knob-headed copper-alloy rivet. The rivet is bent over slightly at its end and is 11 mm long.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9050
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. 41 mm long and 11 mm wide, it has no decoration but is cut into a decorative symmetrical shape. There is a central oval lobe and two terminal lobes with rounded ends and incurved sides. On the reverse of each of these is a rectangular-section bent-over attachment spike, which would have passed through leather 5-6 mm thick. The shape of the mount seems rather classical in inspiration; it is 16th century or later, perhaps as late as 18th century.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9051
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a long thin copper-alloy mount from a box. D-shaped in cross-section, it is broken at a rivet hole at either end; towards one end there is relief decoration of transverse mouldings and chevrons, and here the mount is slightly wider. The entire fragment, including the breaks, is worn and corroded to a rough brown patina, with some patches of green surface especially on the flat reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9052
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key. The bow is circular, 14 mm in diameter, and seems internally worn at the edge furthest from the stem. There is a little projection above and below at the junction of bow and stem. The stem is oval in cross-section, and is pierced at the tip; the tip is in line with the end of a simple S-shaped bit which has two channels and two clefts. Probably medieval or early post-medieval.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9053
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, broken at both ends. The leg is wide and relatively thin, with a flat reverse and a front which has a double incurve forming a central midrib. Both faces retain traces of sooting.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9054
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable handle terminal from a patera. All external edges are broken, but the circular part of the terminal survives, at least 30.5 mm in diameter and with a perforation 12.5 mm in diameter. The terminal is convex on the upper surface with a vertical wall to the central perforation which is 5 mm thick. One edge of the terminal retains a fragment of the flat handle itself, which is thin, slightly convex and at least 24 mm wide. All of the broken edges are old and worn.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.