Record ID: SF7561
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead brooch. It is flat and circular, 39 mm in diameter, and about half is missing. There is a border consisting of two rings of pellets, which surrounds a relief quatrefoil. Inside this is another quatrefoil, and then a central relief circle. Only one of the foils survives complete, and this has a large pellet between the central circle and the line of the inner quatrefoil. Just inside the border, in some places cutting through the outer quatrefoil, is a ring of small circular perforations. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug, now squashed flat. The design of this br…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7507
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead seal matrix, pointed oval in shape and measuring 30 x 18 mm. On the flat reverse is a relief design of a longitudinal ridge with a curled-down line to either side looking a little like the two side leaves of a fleur-de-lis. Within the curve on either side is a raised dot, and above the curled-down lines are two short upwards-pointing lines. At the top of the longitudinal line is a pierced D-shaped lug. The engraving on the front is deep and well made, and survives in good condition. The central motif looks like a very simple bird, which is the right way up when the impression …
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 15th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed forel…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7479
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large conical lead weight, with depression in the base. The apex is now incomplete, and may originally have had an integral loop. The base is sub-rectangular, with rounded corners, and measures 29 x 30 mm. The weight is 44 mm tall and weighs 179.92g (6.35 oz). It may be medieval.
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.

Record ID: SF7468
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small biconical lead steelyard weight. The maximum diameter is 20 mm and the weight is 21 mm long. At each end are the remains of a pair of corroded iron wires, which originally formed a loop. It weighs 34.68g.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CAPEL ST MARY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7455
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular lead seal matrix, 24.5 mm in diameter. On the reverse is a relief double-strand cross, made up of two straight strands crossing two strands which curl outwards at the end. Part of one straight arm is obscured by a pierced lug (now bent) and the whole thing is enclosed within a raised border. The die looks well engraved, but is now very corroded. The first half of the inscription is clear - * S' WILL - but then the next few letters could either be EM or FIL' (it perhaps looks most like FIM). After this is a clear D' RO, then apparently a blank space into which one let…
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.

Record ID: SF7426
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 16th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LITTLE CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7409
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from lead. A low pyramid, lozenge-shaped at the base with a slightly hollowed reverse, it measures 28 x 21.5 mm corner to corner and 10 mm thick from the base to the top of a central boss. The ridges running from the boss to the more pointed corners have been flattened off; the ridges running to the less acute corners have been decorated with two to four narrow relief bands. Two sides have narrow flattened flanges around the edges. Function and date unknown.
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7410
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Piece of lead which may have been adapted for use as a pencil. A crude ingot, D-shaped in cross-section and tapering slightly, its narrower end has had small facets removed to form a point (now a little worn and rounded). The wider end is flattened, as often found on medieval pencils. The D-shaped cross-section, however, is unconventional.
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7394
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Boy bishop token.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2001
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7380
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal, not quite complete, measuring 23 x 21.5 mm. One face is stamped with Cyrillic lettering in four lines, reading (transliterated) L.D./ IMVI / NNIKS / M 55 (the last two letters of the second line and the second 5 are unclear). The other face has Roman letters reading NP. / - F 12 H / 1809. The second line on this face is very unclear but is read with the help of the parallel in Fife Museum, CUPMS 1999.56.14 (Sullivan 2000, no. 40). There is, however, a definite initial before the F. John Sullivan has seen this seal and confirms that the Quality Control Officer iss…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7381
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lead bale seal, originally thought to be possibly Russian. A simple lead disc, 22.5 mm in diameter and now incomplete, which reads MD / 1780 in two lines on one face, and has a coat of arms with a coronet above on the other. The charge on the shield appears to be (see sketch) quarterly, 1 and 2 a lion rampant, 3 barry of four with a lozenge on the second bar, 4 missing, with possibly some central device (a rose?) These arms do not seem English. John Sullivan has seen this seal (February 2002) and considers it not to be Russian.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7385
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crude lead face, modelled in three dimensions. It cannot be called a head, as the reverse is slightly dished, as if to fit on the outside of a vessel. The brow has a curving ridge across it, presumably representing a hat or headband; underneath are two relief eyes and a nose. Each eye is a long lump, but the right eye has been half-removed by damage. The nose again is just a lump, and there is a depression above it. The mouth is not delineated but there is a projecting lower jaw. All over the face are smaller pits and bumps, including a particularly large one under the right eye…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ASHBOCKING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7374
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two lead kosher seals, small and each with part of a projecting rod surviving. They are both oval, 10 mm and 11.5 mm across, with the rod projecting from one of the shorter ends. The narrower one is 25 mm long (about half of this is the rod) and is stamped with four Hebrew letters in two lines on one face. The last two letters on the top line are possibly alef and tet. There is a single letter (perhaps alef) on the other. The wider one is 23 mm long (the rod part is 9 mm long) and has perhaps two letters on one face and a single letter on the other. This one also has traces of po…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STUTTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7375
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead seal matrix. Originally the matrix would have been circular and c. 30 mm in diameter, but now almost all of the inscription has gone, leaving just a central motif within a circular border. The motif is a quatrefoil, each foil oval, with a central circle and a groove between each foil. The fragment of the inscription which survives begins with a six-point star, and ends with an O and a blank area. On the reverse is a relief design of a seven-branched plant, with a pellet at the end of each branch, with a wide shallow grooved border around. The stem of the plant is th…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STUTTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7355
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOW CUM QUY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7349
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead seal matrix, 26 mm in diameter. Flat, it has a relief design on the reverse with six radiating ribs crossing two concentric rings to make three fields. In the second field the six ribs are joined by six more in between; in the third field the twelve ribs again have intervening ribs. To one side of the centre, along the line of one of the original ribs, there is a pierced lug, now squashed flat. The design in the centre of the matrix is a six-petalled flower with fine radiating lines between each petal. Around the outside, the inscription is quite poorly engraved, and…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7329
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7330
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead cloth seal. Only Disc I survives; on the front is a horizontal line with B above and R beneath, and on the reverse are apparently two rivets (rather than the normal one). Textile impressions can be seen around the rivets, but any stamping on them cannot be deciphered. Probably a clothier's or weaver's privy seal.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7331
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of lead cloth seal. Only an incomplete Disc 1 survives, with a stamp on the front with initials; there is a C above a star, with T to the right of the star. A third initial to the left of the star is missing. On the reverse is a squashed rivet. Original diameter probably c. 18 mm. A clothier's or weaver's privy seal.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELY', grid reference and parish protected.