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Record ID: SF-5F7822
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd fragment in a grey fabric with grit and a rough feel. It measures 24.16mm x 20.13mm and weighs 5.02g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F6C13
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a grey fabric with small sand and grit and a rough feel. It measures 22.73mm x 20.85mm and weighs 4.86g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F5FF1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a grey fabric with small sand and grit and a rough feel. It has an estimated diameter of 155mm and weighs 4.88g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F5675
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a grey fabric with small sand and grit. It has an estimated diameter of 150mm and weighs 7.07g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F49C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a grey fabric with small sand and grit. It has an estimated diameter of 150mm and weighs 8.78g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F3C14
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a grey fabric with small sand and grit. It measures 37.26mm x 21.05mm and weighs 6.78g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5F2478
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of Thetford ware pottery from a jar. It is a rim sherd in a thin, grey fabric with small, and occasional large, grit. It has an estimated diameter of c.140mm and weighs 7.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E51581
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of copper alloy tweezers of Roman to Anglo-Saxon date. They are complete, and part of the ring by which they were attached to a toilet set remains within the corrosion in the loop. The tweezers have narrow arms at the loop terminal, where there are bands of transverse decoration on both sides, comprising three ribs and grooves. There is punched decoration along the length of both arms, with eight ring and dot motifs on one side and seven on the other, leading to the blade terminals, where there are two flanking ring and dots on both sides. An incised marginal groove runs parall…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-82F5D7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval pin fragment. It has a faceted head formed from a cuboid shape with the corners cut off, and is worn. There is a narrow collar between the head and the shaft of the pin. The shaft appears faceted but this may be due to wear, and comes to a point where it is broken off. It measures 16.1mm in surviving length, 7.13mm in width across the head, 1.75mm in diameter across the shaft, and weighs 1.38g.
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-810385
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy plate brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The body of the brooch is oval, with straight sides and rounded terminals. It resembles a reversed 'S' shape, with a circular perforation within both of the curved 'S' protrusions. The brooch is decorated with a line of ring and dot motifs, starting with one below each perforation and continuing with six more arranged in a curved reverse 'S' line. Some of the dots are deeply pierced but do not perforate the plate. A single line of smaller circles can just be determined outlining the edge of the brooch , clearer on one side as the edges …
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-06C112
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval small long brooch fragment. It has a rectangular panelled head, with 'cross potent' corners. The panel is decorated with triple lunate stamps, in groups of three, along the top and down both sides. Along one side there is a vertical incised line. All the edges of the head plate are worn. There are two incised lines at the base of the panel and the start of the bow. The bow is flat-backed and faceted. On the reverse there is a mass of iron corrosion in the area of the pin attachment. The brooch measures 30.54mm in surviving length. The head plate is 19.95m…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-04B9E1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy incomplete Early Medieval strap-end. It is a tongue-shaped strap-end and is an example of Thomas' Class E, type 2, Anthropomorphic strap-ends. Its lower edge terminates with three protruding knops, and the body of the object has openwork decoration, with perforations arranged in mirror-image. The lower ones are the shape of two conjoined circles and are flanked by two smaller circles above and close to the curved edges of the object. Between and above the apertures there is raised decoration suggesting the torso and head of a figure with arms upraised and hands/foliage …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F004D4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Runic sceatta, Metcalf Series R 8, 710-765 AD. Dr M. Allen comments that this series has a low silver content, which may account for the coin's greenish appearance. It resembles Abramson no.R190. EMC 2009.0373
Created on: Monday 2nd November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DE3E03
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy finger ring of late Early Medieval date, probably complete. It consists of one piece of copper-alloy with a circular cross-section and tapering terminals. These terminals would originally have been bent round to overlap and thus form a ring. They may have been pulled apart to make the finger ring larger. The object measures 24.92mm in external diameter, and 3.74mm in thickness at the centre, tapering to points of c.0.7mm. It weighs 2.5g. Other examples are known from Suffolk, including a complete ring from Freckenham, SF-10850.
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-469FF2
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hone stone, of possible Anglo-Saxon to Medieval date. It is approximately rectangular, 41.79mm in length and 14.54mm in width tapering to one terminal. This is worn with rounded edges but broken off at the tip, and is perforated with a circular hole 6mm from the terminal edge. The hone is 5.4mm in thickness here, but tapers to 2.3mm at the opposite terminal, the edge of which is also worn.Both sides have been worn smooth. The hone weighs 4.37g. Hones of this type were for personal use and were perforated in order to suspend them from a leather belt. Examples are known from Viking …
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-409203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. it is complete except for its pin. The head has a full-round top knob sitting on a waisted stem attached to the head-plate which is rectangular. There are two narrow wings attached to either side of the central panel. The headplate measures 8.37mm in length and 10.97mm in width. The bow is semi-circular in profile, and widens at its centre to 11.72mm. It tapers to the start of the foot and has a band of transverse moulding (three bands and two grooves) at its base and before the foot begins. The top of the foot is 6.5mm in width with …
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-96B834
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An oval copper-alloy object, probably a strap-slide of late Anglo-Saxon date. The object is flattish, and incomplete on a small part of the circumference due to old breaks. It is also slightly curved, to give a convex appearance on the outside. There is a raised rib of metal running along the long axis, approximately 1.75mm in thickness and 4.65mm in width. The metal of the rib has a reddish tinge and is decorated with eight separate ring-and-dot motifs. These also cover the entire front surface in a haphazard way. The rib turns at right angles at the edge of the disc, and projects be…
Created on: Monday 17th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-26E091
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy late Early Medieval bit link. One terminal has the characteristic lozenge-shaped knobbed loop which is attached to a rectangular arm 6.79mm in thickness, with a rounded boss set just before the opposite terminal. This is a second loop which is oval in shape. The bit link measures 49.36mm in length and the knobbed terminal loop is 22.17mm in width, whilst the arm is 6.78mm in width. The bit link weighs 16.75g. Its function was to have been attached to the ends of the iron bits adjacent to the cheek piece, and to which the reins were secured. A similar example has be…
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-733814
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy early medieval disc brooch. It is circular 23.85mm in diameter, 1mm in thickness and weighs 3.21g. The brooch is extremely worn, but a faint trace of a human head can be seen with a possible halo behind. A face can just be determined, and there are some angular depressions below, perhaps representing shoulders. To either side there is a cross with irregular rounded arms. One bears traces of red enamel and the other of blue/black enamel. On the reverse side close to the edges of the brooch are the remains of a catchplate, with one complete loop and one catch, with a cuta…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-706D55
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy terminal, possibly the head from a stylus or pin, of Early-Medieval or later date. It has a flat rectangular plate (possible eraser) showing tool marks, that has been cut to a cross pattee shape at the top and both sides, and the lower edge is trapezoidal. Whilst the reverse of the object is flat, the front face has a shallow circular depression in the centre of the cross 3.5mm in diameter, and below this a triangular projection forward, with side length and thickness of 5.6mm. On the underside of this triangle the remains of the stylus or pin shaft, missing due to old br…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.