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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
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This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', 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
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This findspot is known as 'STETCHWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF9033
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from a snake-ring, made from a very greyish soft metal, apparently a lead alloy. The hoop of the ring is circular in cross-section at the break, 3 mm in diameter; it quickly flares out to form a snake's head bezel which is 10 mm wide and 3 mm thick. The head is oval or lozengiform, and is quite stylised, with grooves along the edge on the rear half of the head but no other visible decoration. The head tapers into the hoop with no border between them, and the fragment is strongly curved to fit around the finger.
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8981
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead token of Boy Bishop (St Nicholas) type. A new example with the reverse inscription VILLA BLAXAL This is the first example of a Boy Bishop token that can be definitely attributed to a place outside the towns of Bury, Ely, Sudbury (just one) and Ipswich.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8900
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual form of hooked tag. The plate is made from lead alloy, with a tall flat-topped cylindrical central boss around which is a raised circle. Outside the circle the edge is fragmentary, but looks lumpy and may originally have been a ring of pellets. On the reverse is the scar from a missing loop, which ran straight across the upper part of the plate. At the base of the plate is a separate copper-alloy hook, made from circular-section wire and set into a blob of lead alloy. This hooked tag is large, and quite complex in manufacture, yet made from a very cheap alloy. The metal m…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'BRANDON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8721
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8241
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped armorial shield made from a lead alloy covered with a fragmentary thin shiny sheet, perhaps made of silver. The arms are in relief and there are no colours or tinctures surviving. There appears to be some iron corrosion on the reverse but no clear means of attachment.
The lozenge indicates that these are the arms of a woman, and the lack of impaling shows that the woman was unmarried. The arms are: quarterly 1 and 4: or on a pile engrailed sable, between two fountains barry wavy of six argent and azure three crosses-crosslet of the first. 2 and 3: argent on a bend sa…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8205
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular pilgrim's badge made from lead, now bent and torn. One corner is incomplete, and the other three show slight expansion towards their missing attachment loops; otherwise the badge is complete. It is decorated with a central motif of St Paul (with a pointed beard and bald forehead) on the left, and St Peter (with a rounded beard and curly hair) on the right. Both saints are nimbed and dressed in flowing robes, and both hold their symbol obliquely in their outer hand. St Paul holds a sword (symbol of his martyrdom by beheading), and St Peter holds a large key with the el…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7807
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from lead alloy. It is incomplete, and now consists of a hollow dome with the remains of some kind of flat border around at least part of its edge. The dome has a central boss, around which are rings of smaller pellets. It is about the same size as the top of a thimble.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7454
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of lead-alloy button, with relief triple-strand cross decoration. Only the centre survives, with the scar from a missing loop on the reverse. Maximum surviving diameter 11 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
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