Record ID: NMS-3A996D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold hook element from a dress fastener, of composite construction, consisting of a hook (now incomplete) and an applied plate made from several elements. The applied plate is built up on a backplate made from a piece of circular sheet gold about 7mm in diameter. This has a vertical gold sheet collar soldered around the edge, which may originally have held a setting of glass, gemstone, etc. Around the collar is a separate outer frame of circular-section gold wire about 1.5mm in diameter, which has fine transverse grooves all the way round its surface. A butt joint i…
Created on: Monday 24th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th May 2021
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Record ID: FAHG-8EAAA3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flat object, possibly a mount, apparently made from copper alloy, in the shape of a horned figure carrying two spears. The object appears to be complete except for one lower corner, but depicts the figure from the waist up only. The lower edge is slightly incurved and is raised; the raised edges of the sides are formed from the shafts of the spears. The figure is wearing a battle tunic with the normal cross-over opening shown in relief, and has thin arms bent at the elbow to grip each spear at shoulder height. The face has a large open drooping mouth and may have a small point…
Created on: Friday 5th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-FC9EE2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete small-long brooch in excellent condition. Made from copper alloy with no obvious trace of a surface coating, it has a rectangular headplate which is undecorated except for a small V-shaped bevelled nick in the centre of the top edge. One corner of the headplate is slightly bent. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug with remains of the iron pin bar. The bow is triangular in cross-section, flat on the reverse, and there is no flat panel at top or bottom, or any other trace of decoration. It is slightly worn at its highest point. There is a flat-topped mou…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2016
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Record ID: CAMHER-862B65
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of narrow copper-alloy bracelet. Although both ends are broken, the curve of the bracelet is still obvious. It is decorated with continuous, slightly oblique, ribbing made up of quite broad grooves which reach right to the edges of the bracelet. The edges are not straight and parallel, but wiggle as if the more fragile edges of the grooves have become more worn than the more robust edges of the ridges. Flat cross-section. Quite corroded, with some parts of the surface missing. Maximum width 5 mm; uncurled length of fragment, 53 mm. Weight 2.12g. Roman, late third or fourth ce…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Record ID: CAMHER-86B091
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Short fragment of wide copper-alloy bracelet, 18 mm wide and 20 mm long. One end is bent and broken, but the other is original, and cut straight across. This terminal is decorated with four transverse zones of what looks like rouletted ornament; two strips of circles in the centre, flanked with a strip of ribbing on either side. The rest of the fragment is decorated with longitudinal lines; the edges each have a groove cut across with tiny nicks, then a broad flat-topped ridge, then a broad groove, and in the centre a series of narrower grooves and ridges. It weighs 2.35g. Roman, …
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
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Record ID: CAMHER-86CC72
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two joining fragments from a wide copper-alloy bracelet, 16 mm wide; the fragments are c. 29 mm and c. 27 mm long and weigh 2.52g and 2.16g respectively. No terminal of this bracelet survives. The fragments are decorated with two broad longitudinal grooves down the centre, and running down the middle of each groove are some obliquely set oval pellets giving the impression of cabling. Quite corroded. Roman, 1st-2nd centuries AD. Similar examples are known from Colchester (Crummy 1983, 37, no. 1566, fig. 38) , Verulamium (Waugh & Goodburn 1972, 31, fig. 31).
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
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Record ID: CAMHER-86DCE5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary Roman spoon made from copper alloy with a white-metal coating and dating to the second or third centuries AD. The bowl must originally have been oval, but the far end is now torn away and too damaged to reconstruct its precise original shape. The handle is also incomplete, but appears to gently change from a circular cross-section to a tall rectangular cross-section; it then expands to a curve below, with a circular perforation, and an upper part decorated with V-shaped ribbing. The curved part then extends forward to attach to the back of the bowl in a long tail. Cru…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2012
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Record ID: CAMHER-880A07
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Roman bracelet made from thin flat copper-alloy strip. One end has a flared and flattened terminal broken across a central perforation, and the other end is broken (old break). The bracelet is decorated with multiple motifs; next to the terminal are six transverse grooves, then there is a narrow longitudinal groove between rows of edge nicks, then six more transverse grooves. A large ring-and-dot motif comes next, then two more transverse grooves. There is then a slightly raised square area, divided by grooves into two longitudinal panels, each decorated with four small do…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Record ID: CAMHER-8829C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded remains of a Colchester one-piece brooch made from copper alloy. It has tiny stubs of rectangular wings, a forward-facing hook worn to a tiny curved spike, the remains of the pin as another spike, and a very corroded circular-section bow curving down to a point. The remains of a catchplate can be seen as a thin fin on the reverse of the foot. The metal is a rough brown. Late Iron Age or early Roman, c. 20-60 AD. 41 mm long. 2.15g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Saturday 16th May 2015
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Record ID: CAMHER-883FA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman brooch of Nauheim derivative type, made from a flat strip of copper alloy. At one end the strip has been wound into a spring; the chord passes under the bow and is then broken, so that the other half of the spring and the pin are missing. The surviving spring half has two turns and then widens into a bow 5 mm wide, which is decorated with a border groove down each edge. The bow gently tapers again, but the very end of the bow and the catchplate are missing (fresh breaks). Despite being small and flimsy, the brooch seems to be well made. 1st century BC to…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
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Record ID: FAHG-7B3D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, complete with red enamel inlays on head, bow and foot, and with the remains of silver plates on the footplate. Ancient repair on the bow. The brooch has relief decoration in Salin's Style I, and the silver-and-gold colour scheme is known as the Bichrome Style. The brooch fits squarely within Hines's Group X, which is tentatively dated at present to the later part of his Phase 2 (in calendar years, perhaps c. 525-c. 550 AD; Hines in Hunn et al. 1994, 129). Headplate The headplate has a rectangular inner pan…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
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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.