Record ID: SF-8F48A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The basal circular lobe, and a short part of the stem above, from the base finial of the baseplate of a Great Square-headed brooch of Hines Group XV. Like groups XVI and XVII this series has a strongly East Anglian distribution. Group XV is distinguished by incorporating the staring masks and animal ornament which are also found on the florid cruciform brooches, and both types developed in East Anglia during the first half of the sixth century and into the decade or so after 550. Most of Group XV does not have rounded lobes with silver appliques, but one example from Tuddenham St Mary…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E7DA46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The right-hand (sinister) lobe and part of the empanelled ornamental footplate of a gilt bronze square-headed brooch of sixth century date and East Anglian manufacture, of Hines' Class XVI. The fragment is but 21mm wide, 18mm high and 2.2mm thick, but the surviving detail is sufficient for a confident attribution to that group. The outer edges of the lobe are abraded, but it was evidently raised and coated with silver sheet which is now lost from the metal surface, except for one tiny spot near the lower edge. The empanelled ornament includes the ends of two panels of guilloche which …
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'north of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E4B5A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The head and bow of a small square-headed brooch with chip-carved ornament on the headplate. The small square headed brooches are not treated at length by Dr Hines in Corpus of the Great Square-headed brooches, though they are typologically related to them. McGregor and Bolick illustrate several (p.120-124) from the Ashmolean collections, some from the south Fen cemeteries of Cambridgeshire, though perhaps the closest to the present example are the pair from Freckenham, illustrated by West Pl II.4 and p.40, accessioned to the Cambridge archaeological departmental Museum in 1892. These…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'north of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4E3442
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual small ansate brooch of Weetch's type IV, 35mm long and 9mm wide with equal terminals of 11.5mm length and central bow of approx 14mm length and 4mm width. The terminals are pitched longitudinally in profile, with a raised bar 2mm in width at the end, and with two ring and dot motifs on either side of the pitch fully occupying the surface area. The pin attachment consists of two large straight-sided lugs 7mm high and 5mm wide placed side by side, combined width 5.5mm, with a bar of 1.5mm gauge passing between them, and the pin rolled around it in the space between. The pin …
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4BB268
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small animal-head terminal from a cruciform brooch. The whole object is 24mm long, 8mm wide and 4mm thick. It has a flat back with lngitudinal central groove. The snout has a longways central ridge and the two eyes are raised either side. The tip of the snout does not flare, but is shown by transverse banding, and then a flaring flat chisel-like tip.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4BA2A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot of a cruciform brooch with horse's head and flared nostrils. A characteristic North Suffolk example with widely-flared nostrils on a moderate-sized brooch. The fragment is 37.5mm long, 4mm thick and 10mm broad except at the nostrils which are 14mm broad. There is the usual central axis of the long snout, the brow ridges and the two raised points for eyes, set far down on the sides ofthe head. Benhind, on the neck, there is a zone of three transverse bands. The remainder of the brooch has broken away.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4B6E83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Portion of florid cruciform brooch of large type with simple development of upper knob but plain side-knobs. The knobs are in-cast, not detachable, and are flat-backed rather than in the round. The surviving portion of the brooch is the bow, the headplate, one of the wings with its plain knob, and the upper knob with ornamented tip. The bow spans a length of 31mm and tapers in width from 19-15mm. It is steeply chanfered, creating a median thickness of 7.5mm. There are sharply angled knucles at either end of the bow. The centre of the headplate is 18.5mm square. The arm to the right exp…
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8F1CC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This very simple brooch, almost effectively a buckle, consists of a wire ring 2.5mm broad and 2mm thick ( and therefore slightly flattened in section), with a neatly-formed pin 20mm long, 2mm in breadth and 2.5mm in thickness with a squared and ridged shoulder 4mm by 3mm, and an elongated loop 7mm long, 5mm broad and 1.5mm thick enclosing a circular hole 3mm in gauge. The overall length of the pin including loop and shoulder is therefore 28.5mm, and the diameter of the ring is 28mm. The ring is ornamented with barley-twist decoration over about one half of its circumference, this being…
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8EE9D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hexagonal quasi-annular brooch with raised ornament at each angle consisting of small raised circular cells containing white chalky paste, perhaps formerly enamel. The frame of this mediaeval brooch is 3mm wide and 2.5mm thick, and its diameter is 33mm from one straight face to that opposite, and 33mm from one angle to the opposite angle. The pin, which is slightly incomplete but still attached, is 2.5mm thick (depth) but only 2mm broad, so ovate in section, with a squared and ridged shoulder and an elongated loop 6mm long but 3.5 thick and merely 1.2mm wide. In this narrow dimension …
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AC7548
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular-framed brooch with decorative element, a tapering collet angled outwards and containing the remains (whitish) of an enclosure. A short protrusion on the other side of the circular or slightly ovate frame has a longitudinal surface groove. the back is smooth, but with vestigial traces of file-marks from tidying-up the casting. The pin is made from a strip of metal 1mm broad and 0.5mm thick, wrapped around the frame at a position 90 degrees around the frame from the above two ornaments, and set in a waisted indentation 3mm wide and 1mm thick: the ovate frame…
Created on: Tuesday 6th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-00FF81
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A detachable side-plate from the head of an elaborate cruciform brooch, probably of Group IVb. This is more developed than any of the published examples from Suffolk illustrated by West (1998), however. It takes the form of a semicircular plate 23mm in diameter, with a pointed extension at the mid-point (outer side, centre) of the arc. At the centre of the inner side, i.e. the straight side opposite the arc, the plate, which is 1mm thick, develops into a collar which is rounded on the front, attaining 4mm thickness at the apex of its domed profile, but flat on the back. This occupies a…
Created on: Wednesday 16th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-001885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment from the footplate of a bronze cruciform brooch, probably a fairly large example. This fragment is 27mm long by 13mm wide by 6.5mm thick at the apex of its domed section. The fragment includes the collar, brow, eyes, and part of the snout of the terminal beast-head, but the tip of the snout is broken away. The eyes are large raised oval bosses, and the crest of the snout ridge is abraded so as to have removed the outer patination. Above the collar, which takes the form of the usual double-banded transverse with scooped central channel, and which occupies a zone of 7mm, there r…
Created on: Wednesday 16th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trimley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F17AA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower part of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of early type, showing an animal's head terminal with greatly expanded nostrils (as a rounded bulb), long tapering snout, raised eyes, and ornamental banding across the neck. At the broken end, there is a flat surface 10mm long and 11mm wide , beneath which part of the catchplate for the pin rise directly from the back of the brooch, and is not bent over or otherwise curved. The whole fragment is 50mm long and 14mm wide at the widest point, which is at the nose. The distance from the tip of the nose to the eyes is 23mm, and from the eye…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F132F5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower part of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of late fifth or early sixth century type. The fragment is 48mm long and 11.5mm wide at the widest point,near the tip, where the nostrils of the terminal beast-head expand into a rounded bulb. The object is very corroded, and on the reverse is a long central ridge which represents the broken-off footings of the catchplate for the brooch pin, though the catchplate itself is lost. This ridge runs for 30mm but terminates 15mm before the foot of the brooch. On the upper side, the tip is represented by the globular nose bulb, and the elongat…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4A8754
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily fire-distorted portion of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of developed or exotic kind. Distortion is such that the entire object has melted into an asymmetrical shape. The remains of the lower part of the foot, which is hollowed longitudinally beneath, show a section about 20mm long and 10mm wide, with a central ridge, and a large protruding eye on either side rising from the upper surface like a pellet. The nose and snout, etc, are snapped off. Above the eyes are two strongly-defined collars as raised lateral ridges, the higher one having a groove along its crest, with a…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4A3262
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded and fragmentary piece of a small-long brooch, possibly of the trefoil or cruciform type. A shapeless central portion of the headplate survives, with extensions beginning to develop (i.e. mostly worn or corroded away) at either side. Where the bow joins the headplate, there is a small area where the edges of the headplate are preserved, and these rise 3mm from the bow junction before turning outwards abruptly to accommodate the 'wings' of the headplate. The height of the headplate from this junction to the surviving top (not an original edge, but a corroded surface) is 16m…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pettistree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3402C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A brooch or buckle of annular form, comprising a closed bronze ring of rod 3mm breadth and 2mm thickness, now ovate, its diameter varying between 31 and 36mm. Although the irregularities of the ring suggest that it may have been hammered from rod, the absence of any evident junction of the two ends in the circuit may indicate that it was in reality cast. The pin is of bronze of a different and darker colour, and of a different quality of manufacture. The loop around the brooch or buckle frame is neatly formed like a shepherd's crook, being 10mm diameter with a piercing of 5mm, and 2mm …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-32B105
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Portion of the head and bow of an early brooch of cruciform type, which has been subject to distortion by fire, and which has been broken in antiquity. This damage strongly suggests that, as with other finds from the neighbourhood, this brooch has been a furnishing in a cremation burial and has been burnt in the funeral pyre, occasioning its damage. We have here part of the narrow plate of an early and simple cruciform brooch, a fairly thin (1mm) rectangular plate only slightly broader than the arm of the bow, and which may never have had side terminals. It is roughly square, measuring…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-323565
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Distorted bronze fragment from the foot of a florid cruciform brooch, showing the human mask with surrounding zoomorphic details. The distortion of the metal, apparently the result of heat action, suggests that like other examples from neighbouring Yaxley etc, this is probably derived from a cremation burial in which the ornament passed the fire and consquently became denatured. The fragment is 38mm wide, 22mm high and 2.5mm thick. Although originally a flat casting, the distortion has rendered it somewhat concave on the upper surface. The reverse is plain. The fragment repres…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.