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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.

Record ID: SF9241
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, in form very similar to the 'lyre-shaped' buckles used in the 15th century. It is openwork and roughly oval in outline. One end has a basically rectangular perforation and the other end has two oval perforations; these combine to form the 'lyre' shape. One of the short edges of the rectangular perforation (nearest the ovals) is incurved and has rounded corners. Beyond the two oval perforations is a terminal, now probably incomplete, formed from two back-to-back scrolls with a triangular perforation in between. There are two other areas o…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOCKTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9242
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURY ST EDMUNDS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9243
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURY ST EDMUNDS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9226
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a 'mustard' quern made from imported Rhenish lava. About a quarter survives; its diameter is c. 170 mm, it is c. 35 mm thick, and its central hole has a diameter of c. 40 mm. Probably an upper stone, its grinding surface is harp-dressed and the other surface is roughly pecked. 'Mustard' querns are mentioned in inventories and wills from the 17th century onwards and it is thought that these small querns are the ones referred to.
Created on: Thursday 29th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9211
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Five sherds of micaceous grey ware; four body sherds and a dish rim.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9212
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd, probably of early Anglo-Saxon date.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9213
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three sherds of medieval date. One is medieval coarse ware (12th to 14th century) one glazed Grimston ware (13th to 14th century) and one perhaps Essex red ware (12th to 14th century).
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9214
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One small body sherd of micaceous Roman grey ware.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9215
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval pottery. Eight body sherds of medieval coarse ware, and two body sherds of glazed Grimston ware. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9216
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two rim sherds of Glazed Red Earthenware, 16th to 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9209
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip of copper-alloy socketed spearhead or arrowhead, with rounded midrib. The socket extends to about 35 mm from the tip. The blade edges are mostly damaged and worn, and the main break is patinated and fairly worn. There are recent (agricultural?) scrapes to the midrib on both faces. It is patinated medium green, with some paler green patches of corrosive products. One wing appears to be relatively complete; the side is only slightly convex, but there is a convex basal end. This side is only 66 mm long from the tip to where it joins the socket, although this must be an approx…
Created on: Tuesday 27th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRAMLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9205
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery disc, 24 mm in diameter and 5 mm thick, perhaps a counter or playing piece. One face has a large incuse letter D, with VIII in smaller lettering below. The fabric is a fine red earthenware with ferrous inclusions; this type of fabric could have been made almost anywhere in England, so gives little help in identification. The inscription could be deciphered as eight pennyweight, but in fact the disc weighs 4.47g, which is 2.87 dwt. Probably post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9206
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified copper-alloy object. One end has a long pyramidal terminal, tapering from a maximum cross-section of 4 x 3.5 mm. Below the widest point the object then tapers again slightly to a collar, below which its cross-section is circular. The circular shaft tapers quite quickly and is bent into a loop; it ends at a globular terminal. The object is quite worn and corroded, but it appears to be complete, and the bend does not appear to have caused any stress to the metal. Date and function unknown, but it does not appear to be modern. Unbent length c. 45 mm; existing length 23 mm.
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9193
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pommel from a medieval sword or dagger. Viewed from the top it is slightly domed and almost circular, with seven slight facets around the edge forming a heptagon with rounded corners. The maximum 'diameter' is 29 mm. Each of the rounded corners is cut off by a broad V-shaped groove, and from either end of each one a similar groove runs at an angle to the centre. The inner facet of each of the outer grooves has a pair of short oblique lines cut into it, and some of the radiating grooves have a fine zig-zag or series of chevrons along the base. There is a space at the ce…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9194
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy shield-shaped harness mount, now slightly bent and quite worn. The shield is 30 mm long and 24 mm wide with a straight top and sides curving to a point. Three relief lions passant guardant can just be seen on the shield (the arms of England before 1340). Although these were probably reserved and gilded against a red enamel background, none of the gilding or enamel survives. On the reverse is a large tapering integral blunt-ended spike, set at a slight upwards angle; this increases the total thickness to 22 mm. These mounts are very similar to horse-harness pendants and we…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9195
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual object which appears to be an annular brooch. Four sides of an originally hexagonal frame survive, with a D-shaped cross-section; internally the brooch is circular. In the centre of one side is a projecting human head modelled in the round, with hair cut in a square shape to frame the face. The features are strongly and severely modelled, with big relief eyebrows meeting the top of the flattish triangular nose, lower-relief eyes, cheeks and chin, and a line for the mouth. A short neck connects the head to the frame of the brooch, which resembles stylised shoulders and angle…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLUNDESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9196
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very unusual copper-alloy buckle. The frame and plate are cast in one piece, and it is very thick and chunky. The frame is D-shaped, with an animal head at the pin rest. This has a pair of eyebrows which run downwards to form the nose; the nose ends in a large rounded knob. A knobby eye sits below each eyebrow. There do not appear to be any ears. A groove runs around the outer edge of the frame from the outside of each eyebrow and stops at the junction of the frame and plate. In the centre of this junction is a hole for the pin, which survives as a simple piece of strip cut to size an…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALBERSWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9197
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork mount, perhaps from a strap. It is basically rectangular, 24 x 17 mm, although now slightly bent. A flat frame runs around the outside, thickened at each corner to take a rivet hole; one rivet hole is now broken (old break). Rising from within this frame is an almost three-dimensional lion. The lion is in profile towards the left, with its head turned to look out of the frame towards the observer. Both hind paws and the lion's left forepaw rest on the base of the frame; the lion's right forepaw stretches towards the left-hand side of the frame. All of …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALBERSWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9198
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COPDOCK AND WASHBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9199
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from bone, ivory or antler, with ring-and-dot decoration. It is biconvex in cross-section, with one face being slightly more curved than the other. One end is basically rectangular, 32.5 x 27 mm, and each long side of this rectangle has a central V-shaped cut-out flanked by semi-circular cut-outs. Each face is decorated with 19-20 unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs. One corner is certainly complete; from this, a long rod extends parallel to the long edge of the rectangle, increasing the length of the object to 85 mm. The rod is 6 mm wide, and is mainly pa…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9200
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy globular openwork button. 11 mm in diameter, both front and back have six triangular perforations leading to a hollow centre. In the middle of the front is a small raised boss, and there are traces of a black coating around. In the middle of the back is an integral pierced lug. Total length 17 mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9202
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Remains of an extremely corroded flat disc brooch. It has relief decoration consisting of a central relief lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. Each corner of the lozenge is extended to form double strands which loosely knot around themselves. On the reverse is a broken transverse pin lug and a broken catchplate. All of the edges are lost, with the possible exception of a short length of edge near the pin lug; the maximum surviving diameter is 28 mm. Some surface survives on the reverse, but the front is extremely badly corroded. The knots seem neatly made and symmetrical, alth…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GLEMSFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9182
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small earthenware pot. It is c. 75 mm high and has a base diameter of 38 mm, flaring to a cordon two-thirds of the way up (diameter here 64 mm) and then curving inwards again to the rim (diameter 29 mm). The fabric is brown-black and sandy with occasional granitic inclusions (gold mica and felspar) and small black pieces. Possibly an inkwell or paint pot; possibly 'art pottery' of the early 20th century, or a Spanish or Portuguese import of uncertain (but probably post-medieval) date.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9176
Object type: DIE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Asymmetric lead die. None of the faces is quite square, and each has a number of dots from one to six, marked by the use of small dots close to the edges of the faces. The dots are arranged on the faces as on modern dice, except that the 2 face has the dots parallel to one edge instead of being set diagonally. The faces are as follows (dimensions are maximums): 6, 7.3 x 6.5 mm; 5, 7.5 x 6.4 mm; 4, 6.5 x 6.5 mm; 3, 6.5 x 6.2 mm; 2, 6 x 5.5 mm; 1, 6 x 6 mm. The opposite faces do not add up to seven as on Roman, some medieval and post-medieval, and modern dice (Winchester die type A); …
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9177
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is basically 5 mm square in cross-section, although the corners have been cut off leaving narrow facets. Two of the facets have fine transverse lines across them. One end is cut off at a slight angle, leaving a lip on one edge as if the cutting instrument were lifted off too quickly. The other end isa stubby cone. The object appears complete, but is only 15 mm long, so although it looks like a pencil it is rather short for this purpose. It is well made, and now has an even dark brown patina. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9178
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Openwork relief-decorated mount made from copper alloy. It is in the shape of an eight-pointed star, with four leaves radiating to form a square of side 21 mm, alternating with four radiating heads which form curves in the centre of each side of the square. There is a hole in the centre, then a ring of eight holes formed by the spaces between the necks and the stems of the leaves. In between the central holes and the eight smaller holes is a double-strand lozenge, from the corners of which the stems of the leaves spring. The mount is slightly convex and the heads are hollowed on th…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9180
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a long rod, 3.5 mm square in cross-section and with the corners bevelled; one end is broken and the other end terminates in an animal's head and a junction with a second missing element. There is a gently curving bend both downwards and sideways before the break, which has apparently caused no stress to the metal; it is hard to see if this is original or not, although the fact that the terminal end is also slightly downcurving might indicate that at least part is original. It is perhaps easiest to describe the decoration fro…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9181
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is a hollow square in cross-section, flaring from 8 mm square at one end to 13 mm square at the other. The narrower end is undecorated for 19 mm, then there is a concave moulding around all four sides flanked by ridges. The wider end then has a double ridge which is cut across on each face by four grooves. The total length is 34 mm. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9179
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead-alloy pilgrim's badge depicting St Andrew, now bent in half. An upright rectangular plaque, it has a surviving projection at one lower corner that would originally have extended to a stitching loop; the other three corners are broken. St Andrew is in the centre of the plaque, wearing a striped or pleated gown drawn in at the waist; his limbs are splayed as if attached to an X-shaped cross. He faces the observer, but his face is very crude indeed with two large round eyes, a round nose and two large straight lips filling the whole of the space. The arms emerge from the gown to…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9167
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular copper-alloy seal matrix, 17 mm in diameter, with a raised rib on the reverse ending in a pierced D-shaped lug at the top. The central motif is a lamb and flag (the Agnus Dei or Lamb of God); the lamb is looking back over its shoulder and one of its front legs is bent under the body. The flagpole extends up into the inscription where it is crossed to form the initial cross. The inscription around the outside reads ECCE AGNVS DEI (Behold the Lamb of God). This is quite a common 14th-century seal matrix design.
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: SF9168
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One arm and fragment of beam from a folding balance. The arm is broken at its pierced tip; the surviving length is 38 mm and the maximum width of the arm is just 4 mm. There is a pair of ridges just before the pierced tip, and the opposite end is flattened to accommodate the beam as it folds. The beam fragment is attached by a single swivelling peg or rivet; both ends of the beam are broken. The construction of the arm is interesting; along one long edge there are voids showing that it was made either of two pieces, or of a single piece folded, and incompletely hammered together. F…
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: SF9169
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three-dimensional human head made from copper-alloy, from a Limoges-style crucifix. The head is rounded, but the neck is flat and cut off at an angle; the casting appears to be complete, but may have been cut down at some time as there is no means of attachment surviving. There is a faint line around the top of the head, which may represent the hair; there is no halo, nor any rivet hole for attaching one. The nose is fairly flat, with a groove on either side running down to the ends of a straight mouth. The eyes are small, circular and deeply drilled, to take inlaid glass beads wh…
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: SF9170
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver pin with hollow spherical filigree-decorated head. The head is now incomplete, but can be seen to have been made in two halves with a horizontal soldered seam. The diameter at the seam is 7 mm. Each half is decorated with three pellets, each set within a collar of beaded wire and then surrounded by an outer circle of beaded wire. In between these circles are further single pellets. At the very top there would probably have been another pellet, and in the centre of the lower half the shaft emerges. Most of the top half is missing (fresh breaks), showing that the sha…
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: SF9171
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End-cap from a knife handle. It is just a rectangular piece of thick copper-alloy sheet with a rectangular hole set centrally to accommodate a rivet, and it curves more strongly than usual; but this simple object would have been set over the curved end of the knife handle and given a substantial iron rivet with a decorative pyramidal head to provide a neat finish. Usually these end-caps taper slightly to mirror the wedge-shaped cross-section of the handle, but although the edges are corroded this one does not appear to taper. 14th century.
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: SF9172
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End-cap from a knife, made from thin copper-alloy sheet. It was originally drop-shaped in cross-section, and this is the shape of the plate at the far end of the knife, but the sides which extend part of the way down the handle are now bent and distorted. The end measures 23 x 14.5 mm and has a central hole, probably for a rivet. It is decorated with fine engraving which has now almost corroded away. A border can be seen, and two zones of oblique lines, with curvilinear engraving in between. There is engraving in similar condition on the sides of the end-cap, which appear to consi…
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: 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.

Record ID: SF9137
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a rectangular piece of sheet with one long edge bent into a cylinder. The other long edge has a rectangular projection in the centre, and close to this a bar-mount made from similar copper-alloy sheet is fixed to the plate by a single copper-alloy rivet. The bar-mount is set at a slightly oblique angle to the plate, which is not unusual for this type of object and appears to be deliberate.
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: SF9138
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a trapezoidal piece of sheet, with the longest edge bent into a cylinder which retains the outer edge of the clasp's frame. The other long edge has a trapezoidal projection in the centre, and close to this a bar-mount made of thicker copper-alloy sheet is fixed to the plate by a single copper-alloy rivet. Between the bar-mount and the cylinder is a line of rocker-arm engraving. Maximum width of mount, 18 mm. Total width including frame of clasp, 19 mm. Length 9 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9140
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible barred mount. A piece of copper-alloy sheet, now fragmentary but originally shield-shaped, has a broken rivet hole towards the pointed end. The straight end has a bar-mount fixed across it, made from solid rectangular-section copper alloy bar with the short ends bevelled, rather than the more usual curved piece of copper-alloy sheet. This is attached by separate two copper-alloy rivets rather than the more usual one; the more complete rivet is 5 mm long, and has corrosion around its shaft suggesting the original presence of a rove.
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: SF9141
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap clasp, with plate, frame and rotating end, all made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a strip folded in half and is now very fragmentary; a single incomplete rivet hole survives at the attachment end. The frame has strongly curved sides, each with a transverse moulding at either end. The rotating end is narrowed along one edge so that it can be wrapped around the outer edge of the frame. It has no bar-mount, but instead there is a quatrefoil of thicker copper-alloy sheet attached by a well-concealed single copper-alloy rivet. Total surviving length, 29 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9122
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 12 (closed version). Now very worn and a little bent, the loop at the apex is still intact but is very worn at the top. Below, the mount was originally lozengiform but has now lost its side corners; it is decorated with a worn double-strand diagonal cross with a large circular boss in the centre, and a similar double-strand border. There are very low bumps at the intersections of the cross arms and the border. The basal flange has broken away with part of the bottom of the mount, across two rivet holes. All breaks are very worn. Stirrup-…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9123
Object type: SPATULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Wax spatula handle of Feugère's type A3. The top is hexagonal, with the front and back facets being wider than the four side facets; it tapers elegantly to a narrow waist before flaring out again slightly. The front and back facets then flatten towards transverse ridges; below the ridges the handle flares out more strongly to form a flattened triangle. The lower half of this is split to hold the iron blade - traces of iron survive - and is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves. At the split end, one corner of one face is missing, but otherwise the handle is complete. Spatula ha…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Friday 27th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9124
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. A five-toed foot survives, 39 mm wide and 25 mm thick, with a groove separating this from the upper part which is D-shaped in cross-section. Only a tiny part of this exists, with an irregular U-shaped top covered in grey solder. It seems likely either that this foot broke off its vessel, and had to be replaced, or was cast as a replacement to a broken-off foot. The latter seems more likely as the edges of the top are not clearly broken. Vessels with these feet date from the mid thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th 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: SF9125
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Roman grey ware.
Created on: Tuesday 13th 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: SF9126
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of medieval coarse ware, now broken in two.
Created on: Tuesday 13th 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: SF9127
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Glazed Red Earthenware.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9128
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pendant. The loop is broken, but would originally have been wide and circular; the breaks are old and corroded. Below the loop, the pendant is oval in cross-section. At the top is a globular area, then a ridge encircling the whole cross-section, then a long drop-shaped area ending in a small knobbed terminal. It is similar to Oldenstein (1976) no. 413, which he calls a phallic pendant. Surviving length 32 mm, width 10 mm, thickness 7.5 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9130
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy (probably bronze) palstave or 'ingot axe', with very low side flanges in a short septum (the septum is the area above the stop ridge and between the side flanges). The butt appears to be complete; although it is not at right angles to the sides, this is a common feature of palstaves. The palstave is extremely corroded; no original surfaces survive, apart from a small area at the angle between the septum and the stop ridge on either face, and the corroded surfaces are left extensively pocked. Some small circular voids on the blade are possible casting voids. Possi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9131
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant complete with suspension mount, both made from copper alloy. The pendant is in the shape of a six-petalled flower, 14 mm wide and with a hollowed reverse. The uppermost petal is extended out into a long stem which eventually terminates in a loop; this is now slightly bent. The total length of the pendant is 30 mm. The suspension mount is also in the shape of a six-petalled flower, with a rivet hole in the centre blocked by iron corrosion. Below the lowest petal, a projection is folded in half and a slot cut to form two hinge loops. A copper-alloy hinge bar p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9132
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy oval buckle frame with enamelled decoration. Small and now badly corroded, it has an offset narrowed bar and an expanded flat angled outer edge. This provides an area for the enamelling, which consists of a grooved border around a grooved zig-zag with a curved groove in the central angle, all filled with blue enamel. This is in the Limoges style, although very much at the cheaper end of the market; it dates to the 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9142
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Plate and fragment of frame from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a piece of strip bent in half with frame recesses cut; it retains a scrap of black material, probably leather. There appear to be two well-concealed copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end. All that remains of the frame is a fragment of bar retained within the fold 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: SF9143
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is now fragmentary but was originally rounded, and has one separate copper-alloy rivet which retains a small sheet rove. The sides each have a pair of small semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by another rivet with lozengiform sheet rove; it sits at a slight angle. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edg…
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: SF9144
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is rounded, and has one rivet hole which is now incomplete. The sides each have a pair of shallow semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this end is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by a separate copper-alloy rivet. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate) there is a rectangular notch.
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: SF9145
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Frame and rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The frame is basically square, although the sides are slightly outcurved; each side has a small transverse moulding towards either end. The rotating end has a plate made from copper-alloy sheet, which is narrowed to fold around the outer edge of the frame. The wider part has a solid copper-alloy bar-mount attached to it by a single copper-alloy rivet; the bar-mount is set at a slightly oblique angle. The opened-out length is 21 mm, but when the rotating end is closed back onto the frame it measures 14.5 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9146
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 trapezoidal, with a bar-mount running across the longest edge. This is made of thicker sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, and has a notch in the centre of the inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate). The bar-mount is attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 5 mm long, with the remains of a separate rove made from copper-alloy sheet. The plate has no other rivet hole, so is presumably (although not necessarily…
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: SF9148
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 trapezoidal, with a 22 mm long upper edge which has a raised scalloped central ridge. The opposite edge is 20 mm long and has a central circular rivet hole which is blocked by the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. This rivet would have been internal to the strap-slide and would have fixed it to the strap.
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: SF9149
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy loop, probably a strap-slide. One end is rectilinear and the other is more rounded; the loop measures 22 x 7 mm and is 2 mm thick. Strap-slides hold down the free end of a strap, so this strap would have to be quite thin.
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: SF9150
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 pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 26.5 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 22.5 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate copper-alloy rivet survives together with a small sheet rove. This rivet is internal to the strap-slide and retains a scrap of pale textile.
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: SF9151
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 pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 24 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 21 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives.
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: SF9152
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 pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 27 mm long. The opposite edge is 23 mm long, and has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives. Rather corroded.
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: SF9120
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Miniature axe made from copper alloy. The blade is almost rectangular, tapering very slightly towards the blade end which is decorated on one face with three transverse grooves. The grooves are visible when the axe is held with the blade to the left and the shaft to the right. The shaft is circular in cross-section; where the original surface survives it is 3 mm in diameter. The shaft is set very slightly in from the butt of the axehead, but as many of the edges are fragmentary it is hard to tell exactly where the original edge of the butt was. The undecorated face has a slight gr…
Created on: Monday 12th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9121
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Four struck flints. 1. Single-platform core made from black gravel flint with cortex on most unworked surfaces. Length 41 mm, width 60 mm, thickness 23 mm. Later prehistoric. 2. Secondary flake with hinge fracture, made from mottled black and pale grey/white flint. Later prehistoric. 3. Secondary flake with use-wear or recent agricultural damage on the edge. Very obtuse striking angle. 4. Secondary flake, or possibly the result of agricultural equipment damage and hence a 'natural' flake. Very irregular. Black gravel flint with some cortex. The poor quality of this assembl…
Created on: Monday 12th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9119
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy. The fragment is curved, with two parallel bands of rounded convex moulding on the exterior; both bands have damage to them (hammer marks) and between these the metal is rough. The interior has a series of parallel flat facets, striations and hollows, set perpendicular to the mouldings on the exterior. All the edges have fresh unworn breaks, indicating that the metal is quite brittle. The metal is patinated a dark green all over, including the breaks. Length perpendicular to mouldings, 7 mm. Width parallel to mouldings, 28 mm. Thickness 4 mm. It is …
Created on: Monday 12th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9110
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete composite strap-end made from three sheets of copper alloy. It tapers from 16.5 mm wide at the attachment end to 12 mm wide just before an elaborately cut trefoil or cruciform terminal. The attachment end has a single separate copper-alloy rivet, and is cut straight across. There is a very faint hint of saltire decoration at the attachment end of one plate. The central plate is shorter than the others at c. 35 mm long, leaving space for the strap. The terminal has three arms, each ending in trefoils; the fourth 'arm' connecting it to the body of the strap-end has two little s…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9111
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy front plate from a 'crescentic' strap-end. The attachment end is not actually a crescent, as the points are joined to form a sub-circular shape with an oval perforation at the base. Above is a sub-triangular or trefoil terminal with crudely made relief decoration resembling a bush or tree; the 'crescent' has engraved decoration representing the roots. The 'crescent' has four rivet holes, all blocked with iron corrosion, and is recessed for a missing sheet backplate. There are traces of a shiny white-metal coating on all surfaces except for the recess. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9112
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Composite strap-end made from two sheets of copper alloy. The underplate is much thicker than the upper plate, and has survived better; it is 37 mm long and 9 mm wide. The upper plate is attached by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end, and another close to the terminal. It is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment end, and one long edge is very fragmentary. Both sheets are cut into a trefoil terminal. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9113
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded strap-end made from two pieces of copper alloy. The attachment end is broken and the two sheets have sprung apart and bent; the surviving length is c. 37 mm. A wavy line of rocker-arm engraving can just be made out running the length of one sheet. The long edges are cut into a gently wavy outline towards the closed end, and the end itself is pointed. Here the two sheets are joined, perhaps by solder; although it is not possible to see any rivets, perhaps this is merely due to corrosion. Probably 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9114
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end made from a single piece of copper-alloy sheet bent in half and secured by a single separate copper-alloy rivet. The rivet is neatly concealed at one end but has a conspicuous (but neat) thick round disc head at the other. The strap-end appears to have been made out of sheet previously used for something else, because it tapers from 14 mm wide at one end to 11 mm wide at the other. The unbent length is about 27 mm, and it is possible that a single sheet from a composite strap-end was modified to form this object.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9115
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One sheet from a composite strap-end. Made from copper-alloy, it is 46 mm long and tapers from 13 mm at one end to 10 mm just before the simple lozengiform terminal. There are no rivets or rivet holes and no trace of solder; there is no decoration. Part of one long edge plus the corner at the terminal has a flange less than a millimetre thick, indicating the original presence of side-strips.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9116
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Forked spacer from a composite strap-end. Both arms are now broken, and one is bent as well, but the width at the shoulder seems to be c. 19 mm. A flattish terminal in the form of a collared stylised acorn survives. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9117
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end, made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two rivets. One rivet is now missing and that corner is bent and damaged; the other rivet is made from copper alloy. A line made from very neat rouletted squares runs outside the rivets and up either side, but does not continue beyond the fold. There is a slight gap at the fold, as if to accommodate a bar, and a very slight taper as if to accommodate a frame. The object is not neatly square; the corners are not at right angles. As it stands, a use as a strap-end would be perfe…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9118
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy Late Tournai jetton dating to the period c. 1497-1521. V monogram type inscribed SIT NOMEN BOMINI. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 240) nos. 732-734.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 22nd January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURROUGH GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9104
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One shoulder and most of bezel from a copper-alloy finger-ring. The hoop flares gradually from 2 mm wide at the old and worn break, to a maximum of 10 mm wide in the centre of the oval bezel. The bezel is flat and has an engraved fleur-de-lis set longitudinally. The shape of this ring, with steeply sloping shoulders and a flat bezel, indicates a 15th- to 17th-century date.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end, now consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One piece is broken off at 22.5 mm long; it is decorated with a line of rocker-arm engraving down each long edge, and an irregular central longitudinal grooved zig-zag made up of punchmarks. In each of the angles of the zig-zag is a short longitudinal groove, similarly made up of punchmarks. The other piece of copper alloy is also probably broken, but survives to 35.5 mm long; it is undecorated. The maximum width, at the attachment end, is 8.5 mm; this tap…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9108
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet now held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One plate is more highly polished and is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment edge. The strap-end tapers from 10 mm wide at the attachment edge to 8 mm wide just before a series of cut-outs herald the start of the terminal. This is broken at a second rivet hole but was probably originally quite long and elaborate. There appears to be a scrap of textile retained between the plates at the attachment end. Total surviving length 48.5 …
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a composite strap-end, made from copper alloy. It tapers from 20 mm wide at the attachment end to 15 mm wide just before a terminal which is now simply rounded but which may originally have been pointed. The attachment end has two separate but well-concealed copper-alloy rivets each 4 mm long, and is slightly incurved with a central semi-circular cut-out. A groove runs a little way up the strap-end from the cut-out. The plate is pitted with corrosion and no decoration is visible, but despite this the presence of the groove indicates that it was the upper plate. On th…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.