Record ID: SF8839
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of curved sheet, made from corroded iron interleaved with copper alloy. On the outside of the sheet are two copper-alloy bands running around the curve, one 4 mm wide and one tapering from 7 mm to 5 mm wide. The proportions and degree of curvature are right for this to be part of the case of an iron padlock which has been brazed together and coated with copper-alloy. The copper-alloy strips are unusual, but may be for reinforcing or purely decorative. Iron and copper-alloy padlocks date to the medieval period.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8415
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron object which looks very like a Roman vessel mount. It is drop-shaped, and curves from side to side as if to fit around the curved side of a vessel. At the broader end the object turns towards the convex face through a little over 90 degrees to form a thicker angled platform; this could perhaps have been part of a handle attachment. The iron is in good condition but is laminating slightly at the edges, showing that it is made from wrought iron. Such vessel mounts are normally made in copper alloy and have a loop at the wider top.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7871
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron spearhead, now incomplete. The blade is broken only about 30-35 mm above the junction of the blade with the neck. The blade is a long thin pointed oval in cross-section, 36 mm wide at the break. The solid neck appears short, although without an X-ray it is not possible to tell with certainty, the split in the socket appears to extend almost up to the start of the blade. The socket is about 140 mm long, and the split is 15 mm wide at the base. The external diameter of the socket is 22 mm at its base and the internal diameter is 17 mm. The overall surviving length is c. 195 mm…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHIPPENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7243
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron arrowhead. Although it was probably originally socketed, the socket is now missing leaving only a relatively long solid tapering cylindrical neck below the blade. This neck is 10 mm in diameter at its lowest surviving point. The blade has straight sides and may originally have had small barbs as the lower corners are also incomplete. The blade is a pointed oval in cross-section, 5.5 mm thick at most, and is a maximum of 14 mm wide. The total surviving length is 45 mm; the blade makes up 28 mm of this.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6620
Object type: HAMMER
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small iron hammer-head. In the centre is a sub-rectangular hole for the insertion of a handle. One end is conical and flares to an oval end measuring 13 x 16 mm. The other end is wide and flat and slightly downwards-curving, shaped like a large chisel or miniature adze. Not scanned due to its fragility. Date unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6292
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron and copper alloy object, probably a copper-alloy mend from an iron vessel. The copper alloy forms a sheath, wrapping right around two faces of the rectangular-section iron fragment and coming a little way down a third (wide) face. At first sight it looks like a rim mend (cf. Egan 1998 fig. 135) but the wider faces are not curved along their length - instead, the complete shorter face is curved. It seems therefore more likely to be the flat handle of an iron skillet which has been largely encased (all apart from perhaps the bottom face) in copper alloy, and with one long side no…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5250
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mystery object made of iron and also probably of copper alloy. As far as can be seen, the object consists of a circular-section iron rod, flattened and widened in the centre, bent into a U shape. On the outer curve of the U is some smooth greenish metal, perhaps an elongated copper-alloy plate, with a blob of iron in the centre which may be the remains of a rivet holding the copper alloy on. Although both ends of the iron rod are broken, the most complete tapers to 5 mm in diameter; the centre of the U has expanded to 11 mm wide and 3 mm thick. This is perhaps similar to one from …
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.