Record ID: SF2242
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy lidded container for a set of nested cup-weights. It is a truncated cone in shape with a sub-hexagonal base 26 mm in diameter at the bottom; the lid is 34 mm in diameter. The sides have four solid vertical ribs and two double ribs running from top to bottom. Each of the double ribs ends in a perforated lug, one pair empty and the other with a copper-alloy hinge bar. The lid has projections corresponding to the ribs, and projecting lugs by the double ribs each with a perforation. One is hinged on the bar, the other sits just above the double empty perforation and was pr…
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2000
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3398
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Composite copper-alloy buckle frame and integral plate. The frame is oval with a distinct knop at the pin rest, and 22 mm wide. The integral forked spacer has a plate soldered to each face leaving a hole for the (missing) pin. There is a single copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end and the plate is 15 mm wide. The frame and spacer are a dark grey colour, and there are patches of dark grey coating on the plate; the dark grey probably represents a decayed white-metal coating. Length 41 mm.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3399
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal. Disc 1 is stamped with a stylised pin cone on a crossed stem, with a trefoil to either side. Disc 2 is missing, but the rivet retains a fragment of the initial A. There are no textile impressions on the reverse. This is a seal from a fustian (cotton/linen mix) made in Augsburg, Germany.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3400
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large mount, probably from a belt, made of two pieces of copper alloy sheet held together with four rivets. Each sheet is basically rectangular with either short end cut into a double outcurve. Both sheets have a central circular perforation 5 mm in diameter. The rivets are placed in the centre of the outcurves and have disc heads at either end. Some fragmentary edges. Perhaps a decorative mount, or perhaps for reinforcing a hole in the strap. 41 x 21 mm.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3401
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy mount from a sword belt. One end, originally with either a hook or a loop, is now missing (fairly fresh break). The break is across one end of a domed oval lobe with hollow reverse; at the other end is a transverse moulding, then a rounded pierced terminal with an iron rivet, then a small knop. Maximum width 13 mm, surviving length 28 mm.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3402
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy button with solid biconvex head. The back is much more shallowly domed than the front. The integral loop is very worn at one point. 11 mm diameter, 13 mm from the front to the end of the loop.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3403
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy button made in two pieces. The head of the button is hollow and biconvex, with a large hole in the shallowly domed back into which a circular-section wire loop is inserted. Possibly medieval, as it is similar in some respects to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1386; but also perhaps much later, perhaps 17th century. 10 mm in diameter, and 10 mm from the front to the end of the loop.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3405
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rim from a cast copper-alloy vessel, together with part of the angled handle lug which identifies it as a cauldron. The rim is smoothly polished inside and has oblique filemarks outside; both surfaces are black but this is very even and may be a deliberate coating rather than sooting. There are at least two breaks, one much more recent than the other. The handle is a faceted D-shape in section and is broken just below the rather rounded angle. The rim fragment is 56 x 23 mm maximum, and the handle projects 36 mm from the rim. The section of the handle is 10 x 10 mm.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BROMESWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3407
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mount from a sword-belt made from cast copper alloy. Large and flat, it is sub-triangular with a slot cut out of the base to form two arms. Each arm has a decoratively shaped base and a hole filled with an iron rivet; one of the arms has wear or damage to its inner corner. The arms are each decorated with two broad and very shallow longitudinal grooves separated by a narrow groove. Across the top of the arms are three transverse grooves cut through by another rivet hole containing a third iron rivet. Above this the apex is truncated and decoratively shaped. On the reverse at the …
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MARTLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3408
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver penny of Alexander III of Scotland
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3409
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Object consisting of a copper-alloy rod with an ornate terminal. The rod is hexagonally facetted in section, 4 x 4 mm. The terminal makes up over half of the length, and starts with a narrow moulding running around the whole of the section, then a wider biconical moulding, and then a 9 mm diameter ring with a long pointed knop at the end. The other end of the rod is flattened and perhaps broken (old break). The object is a little reminiscent of composite strap-ends, but one of these would have plates soldered to either face of the ring, which are impossible in this case because of …
Created on: Friday 8th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3595
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy spacer plate from a composite strap-end. Apparently complete, it is penannular with pointed ends, with visible filemarks on both faces and a large (7 x 13 mm) knop in the centre. The knop is acorn-shaped with the cup cross-hatched on both faces, and sits on a moulding. The strap-end was probably originally circular with the two outer plates finishing at the moulding.
Created on: Friday 29th September 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE BLAKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3596
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal and fragment of side from a copper-alloy spur. The terminal is an in-line figure-8, attached to the side by one of the loops of the 8; this loop is very worn. There are two small side projections at the junction between the side and the terminal. The side is a low triangle in section and only 6.5 mm wide; as only about 15 mm of it survive it is hard to tell whether it would have been straight or curved under the ankle, but the way of joining the terminal suggests that it might have been curved. A late medieval date seems most appropriate. Overall length 28 mm.
Created on: Friday 29th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE BLAKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3597
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 29th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE BLAKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3598
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy and iron. It is flattish and consists of a disc with a long pointed projection. The disc is 16 mm in diameter and mainly composed of iron, with a depression in the centre which may once have been a perforation. Around the edge of the disc, at least on one face, is a short length of copper alloy which curves around and then projects out to end in what may be a relief animal head. The poor condition of the object means that it is hard to decide even if the animal head is in profile or full-face; it is just possible that it has been subjecte…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3599
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Knotenfibel, complete except for the foot and part of the catchplate. The name Knotenfibel has no good English equivalent; it refers to a Late Iron Age one-piece brooch with a moulding on the bow derived from the returned foot of a La Tene II brooch. This example has a bent but complete pin, and a spring made up of two wide coils to either side of the pin and a chord running under the top of the bow. Below, an expanded flat-section bow tapers to a circular-section moulding. The moulding is decorated with fine cross-hatching all around its circumference, and has a groove and a narro…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3602
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very small finger-ring made from circular-section copper-alloy wire. At its thickest, opposite the bezel, the wire is a millimetre in diameter. The ends of the wire become much slimmer; they cross at the bezel and are spiralled around each other before being wrapped around the hoop 12 times on each side. The ring measures 18 x 16 mm externally, but because the hoop is thickened by the wrapped wire only 11 x 12 mm internally. Perhaps a child's ring.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HAWKEDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3603
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 12. The mount is lozengiform with four lozengiform perforations; one is broken through so that the apex is missing (fairly fresh breaks). In the centre and at each side corner are small bosses. At the base, the mount expands slightly just above the right-angled flange to accommodate two substantial iron rivets which still retain a fragment of iron strap. Width 27 mm, surviving length 30 mm.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3604
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Piece of thin copper-alloy sheet cut into a long lozenge and now slightly curved in section along the long axis. Just off centre is a small circular boss with hollow reverse showing some ?iron staining. One of the edges is rounded and the others have sharp edges; one has a silvery patch. There is bubbly corrosion on both front and back and the object looks old.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3977
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Apparently a lead model for a brooch, which would have been circular and slightly domed. Some of the edges now appear to have been cut off straight, and the maximum surviving diameter is 21 mm. There is no decoration on the convex upper face. The reverse is flat, not hollowed, and has a surviving curled-over lug which looks like a catchplate. No pin lug survives. Perhaps a trial piece or a model which would have been used in the manufacturing process; similar to the small Anglo-Scandinavian domed disc brooches of the tenth century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.