Record ID: NMS-0BBBD7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint axe blade in mint condition. Slightly rounded blade, tapering sides, rounded butt, 157 x 79 x 24. This blade was probably intended for subsequent polishing. Probably Late Neolithic.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2004
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Livermere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0B5BA7
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint axe blade in mint condition. Parallel sided, symetrical, 138 x 71 x 42mm. This blade was probably intended for subsequent polishing. Probably Late Neolithic.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2004
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Livermere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-965231
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small late prehistoric blade in dark brown flint, unpatinated, with extensive random edge damage (probably accidental).
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-488881
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late prehistoric notched flake. Small secondary flake from pebble of blackish flint with a shallow notch on the left edge formed by ventral retouch wear at distal edge. Unpatinated.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47A370
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with perforated lug projecting from top of outside edge. Circular, 25 mm. Fleur-de-lis. S’ GOSCEL’ FIL’ WILL’ · (Seal of Joselyn son of William).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-476F72
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with vertical median rib ending in short backward projecting lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, 26 mm. Quatrefoil between four pellets. S’ WALTERI · PIGV (Seal of Walter Pig).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FD87B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sprung dolphin brooch. Undecorated C-sectioned wings, triangular-sectioned bow with concve sides and flat upper face, with a median ridge at the upper end. Almost complete triangular catch-plate with triangular aperture. Blunt-ended foot. Double pierced lug retains the spring with four coils on one side and five on the other. Pin missing. 1st century AD. Length 36mm. Width 23mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th October 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C741E1
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One half of a post-medieval silver cuff-link. Circular, with angled flange, crown above two hearts in low relief reserved on a stippled field, now very worn. Separate loop soldered to reverse. Diameter 14mm. Weight 0.8g. A well known type, see similar examples recorded on the PAS database including SUSS-E88264, SWYOR-52C053, NMS-3C11C7 and NMS-BE7442. The crowned hearts may refer to the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza in 1662.
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th September 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D90CF7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval silver whistle. Distorted, damaged and incomplete half of the originally spherical sheet body or buoy with octofoil design in low relief. For similar examples see TAR 2002 (101, no.125), and SWYOR-F07E07 (a near complete example with very similar decoration). Another similar whistle made of lead / tin alloy in the collections of the Museum of London (96.24/2) is illustrated in Egan (2005, 124, fig.118a). Medieval or post-medieval, 15th - 16th century. Weight 1.6g.Original diameter greater than 22mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3692B7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite rumbler bell. Sheet metal upper and lower half soldered to form a prominent median rib, with separate inserted and soldered rectangular strip forming a loop. Round ended slot in base. Iron pea. Diameter 19mm. Height 22mm. Late 13th - early 15th century (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 338 - 9, fig.221, no.1644, 1645 and 1666).
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AE1108
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Lower half only survives, neck and loops missing. Spencer's (1990) type 1 scallop shell on one face, an uncertain design on the other consisting of two pellets surrounded by a circular border with intersecting lines crossing the border to the edge of the ampulla. A scratched X accross the face appears deliberate. Surviving length 32mm. Surviving width 37mm. 1300 - 1530.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADD998
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval copper alloy spoon. Round or slightly oval bowl, now bent and torn at the edges, with no visible marks. The stem is rectangular-sectioned as it tapers from the bowl, becoming narrower and more oval-sectioned towards the simplified and elongated acorn knop. Width of bowl at least 49mm. Length of bowl (reconstructed) circa 60mm. Length of stem 122mm. 14th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-ECFA21
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with off-set, narrowed bar, slightly pointed outside edge with notch for sheet pin. Measuring 18 x 24mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-370B37
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Rectangular attachmnt loop below which the plate is decorated with two groups of four symetrically placed openwork apertures separated by a worn, moulded element above a V-shaped rib in low relief, the point of which terminates at the springing of the incomplete collared hook. The decoration is worn but very similar to better preserved examples recorded on the PAS database, including LIN-E98142, LIN-6900E0 and LVPL-702595. See also Read (2008), 104, no.402 - 404. Surviving length 30mm. Width 16mm.16th - 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-E93701
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic - Bronze Age complete secndary flint flake from single platform core with use wear or damage on edges. Length 29mm. Width 15mm. Neolithic or Bronze Age tertiary blade fragment from a single platform core.. Transverse breaks at both ends. Use wear or dagame on edges. Length 26mm. Width 17mm. Thickness 4mm.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-E947D6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly Early Neolithic tertiary blade fragment from a single platform core, soft hammer struck, transverse break. Length 53mm. Width 22mm. Thickness 5.5mm.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-FE2CF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extremely worn and corroded fragemnt of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. Wings missing, reverse of head slightly concave, spring and pin missing, shallow D-sectioned bow, lower half of bow and catch-plate missing. Breaks ancient. Surviving length 22mm Probably 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FE1FA4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval escutcheon plate for drop-handle. Sexfoil with rounded projection at the terminal of each foil, domed towards the centre with slightly irregular central hole surrounded by traces of iron corrosion. Diameter 36mm. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FC8143
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded and distorted medieval copper alloy key. Hollow-ended shank, incomplete simple wedge-shaped bit, oval-sectioned shank collared before lozengiform bow with circular aperture and collared knops projecting from each corner. 1200 - 1500. Length 41mm. Bow at least 18 x 19mm. Bit at least 6 x 8mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5DE0D7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with broken loop projecting from the upper edge, outer edge chamfered on reverse. Circular, diameter 24mm. Septfoil. + SIGIL' SEGALLI (Seal of ?Segar or ?Sewall, perhaps a variant or muddled version of either, see Reaney, P.H., and Wilson, R.M. 1991 A Dictionary of English Surnames (London), pp. 389 and 401).
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton with Dagworth', grid reference and parish protected.