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Record ID: SF8008
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BARKING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6132
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pilgrim's ampulla, flat and now rather damaged. The lower part is rounded, and the upper part is flaring; one of the 'handles' is missing and the upper part is cracked and stressed. There is decoration on both faces, but on the lower halves only. One face has a large crown with cross-hatching below; the other has a quatrefoil, with a central rib and leaf-like veins on each foil. It would originally have held holy water from a shrine, but the specific shrine cannot now be identified. Medieval, probably 14th century. This ampulla is noted by Anderson (2010, 187, table 1…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8380
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy annular brooch, circular and 35 mm in diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, 6.5 mm wide and 2 mm thick, with a very narrow (2 mm wide) pin constriction. The pin is missing. The upper surface of the brooch is engraved with a well-made border groove around each edge. In between is an inscription in small black-letter; the letters which are rather poorly made and spaced, and occasionally cut the inner border groove. The first three, next to the pin constriction, read ihc and are quite well cut; there is then a quatrefoil in a lozenge. After this the quality fal…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', 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: SF8920
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy side-looped spearhead or arrowhead. Most of the blade is missing, with a corroded and slightly worn break just above the socket; in addition, quite a bit of one face of the socket is missing just below the base of the blade. The side loops are small, and there is a rounded midrib to the blade. Deep brown patina with areas of pale green corrosion where damage (possibly recent) has occurred. Surviving length 61 mm, estimated original length c. 83-108 mm. Surviving width (probably only slightly less than the original width) 16 mm, external diameter at socket 15 mm, weig…
Created on: Monday 15th July 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8440
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy basal-looped or pegged spearhead, very worn and corroded. The base of the socket and possible loops, plus the tip, are missing, along with much of the wings. The wings were probably originally quite narrow, as edge bevels survive in two small areas. The midrib is rounded. Possible basal loops are suggested by spurs at the base of the wings, with gaps above. Although it is possible that the base of originally solid unlooped wings have merely corroded away leaving these spurs, and that this is therefore a pegged spearhead, the long narrow form and concave channels beside the…
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3547
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy rib-bladed ?side-looped ?spearhead. The fragment is from the lower part of the blade, and retains part of the midrib/socket. The blade is basically flat, but has a curving rib on both faces which runs roughly parallel to the blade edge, about a third of the way from the edge to the midrib. Deep brown patina. The breaks (paler green/brown) are not recent but are probably not ancient. Surviving length 46 mm, weight 17.0g. The curving rib is unusual. It is likely that it derives from the straight ribs on the Irish kite-shaped side-looped spearheads of the early Mi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK RUNHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5271
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny copper-alloy clasp or catch, probably from a bag or box. It consists of a bar 2.5 mm wide, D-shaped in cross-section, decorated with unevenly spaced transverse grooves, with flattened circular terminals 4 mm across. One terminal is pierced, and probably revolved around a peg; the other is also pierced, but has a section of the circumference near the bar cut out to make a hook. This probably engaged with a second peg on the bag/box lid or body to fasten it. These objects are found occasionally in graves of the seventh or early eighth century AD but are exceptionally rare metal-dete…
Created on: Friday 20th April 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3696
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver cut farthing of Harthacnut (1040-42). 
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3600
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flat base sherd of grey ware, with part of a single hole made before firing. Possible 'cheese-press' form? Probably Horningsea ware.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE ELY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4759
Object type: LEASH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated swivel, thought to be part of an elaborate dog's lead or similar. Made from copper alloy, it has an openwork flattened-sphere centre (23 x 32 mm) and a separate swivelling pierced element at either flattened end which would originally have held a suspension ring. The central 'sphere' is made up of four openwork circles, each enclosing a four-leafed plant. One of the leaves is always very small, and they all end in scrolly curls. Each one has an engraved midrib. Obliquely set across the base of the plant are two further grooves, with ribbing at right angles below.…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MARKET WESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8345
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver penny of Cnut, Short Cross type (N790),   Moneyer Hildulf, York mint.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6494
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver cut halfpenny of Cnut, Pointed Helmet issue.
Created on: Friday 20th July 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5811
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy spearhead tip, lozenge-shaped in cross-section and with a lozenge-shaped socket reaching to within about 35 mm of the broken end. All edges, except tip break, are severely abraded. The tip break is therefore probably more recent, though it actually shows a slight casting void. The lozenge-shaped cross-section socket is a characteristic of Wilburton form spearheads (cf. the Isleham hoard) of the Late Bronze Age, c. 1200-1000 BC.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FELIXSTOWE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5093
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy spearhead. The very tip is missing (old break) and so is most of the socket, with just a small part visible. The break at the socket is old and very straight, looking almost like a deliberate cut, but there are no cut marks visible under the microscope. The socket edge has a small casting flaw and the spearhead may instead have been neatly snapped. The edges have been deliberately blunted, with hammer and file marks visible under the microscope, and the blunt edges are old and patinated. The date of this blunting and possible re-use is uncertain. The patina is …
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE STOW CUM QUY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4843
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy pegged spearhead, complete except for very end of tip which has been recently blunted/rounded. Some bare metal is visible here and it seems that the blunting may have happened within the last 100 years (during re-use as a toy?). Also slightly bent towards the tip when viewed from the side. Blade edges appear relatively worn. Original surface is patinated medium/dark green where surviving, but much lost due to slight surface corrosion (and ?agricultural abrasion on one face). Circular hole (diameter 4-5 mm) on either side of socket under blade. Length 71 mm, max width…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK KNODISHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4437
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip of narrow copper-alloy spearhead which is curiously curved and must have been bent in antiquity. There is no trace of the socket, but as the fragment is only 32 mm long and 9 mm max wide this is perhaps not surprising. The tip curves smoothly from the break at the wider end (neither particularly old nor particularly new) to a sharp tip, and there is no hint of stress to the metal. The bend is almost all in one plane - side-to-side - with only a very slight hint of a front-to-back curve. The edges are sharp, and there is a rounded midrib; in section the spearhead tip is lozengiform …
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3835
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy spearhead, tip and socket end missing (old, patinated breaks); slightly bent near tip. The length of socket into the mid-rib is quite short, suggesting a non-lead copper alloy. Narrow, slightly flame-shaped blade form, with concave channel beside mid-rib. The mid-rib is angular nearer the tip but becomes rounded towards the socket end. The surface is eroded and partially pitted, though there is little obvious active bronze disease. Mainly deep brown patina. Rowlands (1976) group 2 side-looped spearhead; a similar, but slightly larger, parallel comes from Burnt F…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALSHAM LE WILLOWS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3753
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small pegged copper-alloy spearhead. Fragment missing from socket (patinated break), otherwise complete. Some edge damage which could be recent. Tip appear extensively re-sharpened. Large amounts of untarnished copper-alloy surface visible, otherwise medium and dark brown patina.
Created on: Friday 20th October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRAMFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3670
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy spearhead tip, socket not visible. To one side of the mid-rib, one face has a distinct 'step' parallel to the edge and the other face has a sudden thinning of the metal parallel to and just inside the edge. The break may be relatively recent. Recent edge and tip damage. Pale/medium brown/green patina. Length 24 mm, maximum width 11 mm, weight 4g.
Created on: Friday 13th October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ST MARY SOUTH ELMHAM OTHERWISE HOMERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.