Record ID: SF-0EA2A3
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman snake bracelet fragment. It is incomplete due to old breaks and consists of the band, which is bent out of shape and a snake's head terminal. The latter is flattened and oval, 2.74mm in width and 15.64mm in length. The surface of the metal is very worn, and some decorative elements exist upon the head but are difficult to determine, beyond the two eyes and tongue closest to the tip of the terminal. The band is circular in section, 1.65mm wide and the surviving length (bent) of the fragment is 45.57mm. It weighs 2.9g. This form of bracelet dates from the mid 1st t…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 13th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-92ED82
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cas copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment, Colchester derivative type. 43-100 AD. It consists of the wings and upper bow only, the coil, pin and catch-plate are missing. The wings are shallow and not quite semi-cylindrical, and are decorated on the outside with several bands of transverse mouldings. The bow has a central longitudinal panel of moulding and is incomplete at the foot because of old breaks. The reverse side of the bow has a hollow channel. The brooch fragment measures 28.23mm in surviving length and is 29.19mm in width across the wings. It weighs 8.05g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 25th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F6B325
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman headstud brooch, almost complete. The pin is missing and the chain loop is incomplete. The wings are short with three steps of moulding from the ends to the bow. There is circular casing for the axis bar behind the wings. The headstud has a raised rim and central dot, and the bow is rectangular in section above the headstud. Below it is flat-backed and has a longitudinal panel filled with lozenge-shaped cells flanked by triangular ones. The central lozenges contain a whitish material, and some of the flanking triangles have a suggestion of red enamel infil. The ca…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 25th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Homersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F677F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative brooch. It is incomplete due to old breaks and consists of a short semi-circular wing case, with bands of transverse moulding on both ends. There is a rear facing hook, but the axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The bow has a flat back, with bands of ridge and grooved longitudinal moulding down the front. The lower part of the bow, along with the catch-plate, are missing. The brooch measures 18.16mm in width across the wings, 19.85mm in length, and weighs 3.21g. It most likely dates to the first century AD. A similar brooch from excavation…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 25th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Homersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F65E56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill type brooch. It is incomplete due to old breaks and consists of the semi-circular wing case, folded ends type, with two bands of transverse moulding on both ends. There is a rear facing hook, but the axis bar, spring and pin are missing. The bow has a flat back, with longitudinal moulding. The lower part of the bow, along with the catch-plate, are missing. The brooch measures 27.24mm in width across the wings, 19.51mm in length, and weighs 3.93g. It most likely dates to the first century AD
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Sunday 25th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Homersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F63435
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman plate brooch. It is a lozenge-shaped brooch, with three steps up to the central lozenge,the centre of which is dished and contains traces of a white paste of possible infil. It has a domed, rounded hollow on the underside. The brooch has a pin fitting consisting of double lugs set close together and perforated to take a bar to hold the pin, now missing. These are set at one corner, and there is a small protrusion from the opposite corner which holds the catchplate. The brooch measures 27.06mm in length, 15.4mm in width and weighs 1.95g. A similar brooch is illu…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Homersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F3B667
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A base silver Roman denarius of Macrinus (AD 217-218), dating to the period c.AD 217-218 (Reece period 10). FIDES MILITVM reverse type depicting Fides standing, foot on helmet, holding standard in each hand. Mint of Rome. As RIC IV.2, p. 10, no. 67b.
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Homersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4E4311
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman radiate of Diocletian (AD 284-305), dating to c. AD 285-6 (Reece Period 14), IOVI CON[SERVAT AVG or AVGG], Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre. Mint of Rome. RIC V, pt 2, p. 236, cf. nos. 161-2
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rattlesden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BAFF04
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver sceatta, Continental series E, later type (Variety A-related), 710-765 AD, probably an Abramson type E 150. Martin Allen has recorded it as EMC 2012.0083, and commented that it belongs to a secondary variety of Series E that does not really fit into the typology of Metcalf and Op den Velde. This is a very diverse coinage that sometimes defies precise classification.
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wethersingsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-93D3D0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy buckle frame dating to the early-medieval or medieval period. The bar is narrowed but not offset, with a circular, faceted cross-section. The rest of the frame has a slightly rounded upper surface with a flat reverse. It is D-shaped, with a notched protrusion at the mid-point of the outside edge, where a pin could rest, and two notched protrusions on the exterior edge, on on the top and one on the bottom, close to the junction of the loop with the bar. The metal is worn and corroded, so details of decoration are obscured, but all around the upper surface of the buckl…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0F4415
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy stylus, probably of Early Medieval date. The metal is worn and patinated, obscuring any decoration, although there are traces of bands of grooved lines on the shaft. The stylus has a flat terminal ( or eraser) which is triangular in shape, and its shaft is circular in section, terminating in a point. The shaft is bent and the lower section and terminal have been bent at right angles, forming a square hook shape. The stylus measures 85.35mm in length (bent), and the shaft is 3.8mm in diameter. The straight edge of the flat terminal measures 12.41mm in length, and the sty…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B15AB4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy medieval mount decorated with enamel and gilding (c. late 13th century to early 14th century). The mount is an approximately triangular shape, and has a horse's head in profile with a semi-circular crest on the top. The crest has incised line decoration suggesting a plume of feathers, and there is a single rivet hole at the centre. The horse is open-mouthed, with a strap across the nose, and a well-defined cheek on which traces of red enamel can be seen, continuing down the mane and neck. There is another rivet hole between the mouth and neck of the horse. The rest of t…
Created on: Monday 9th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-596EA5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy late Early Medieval buckle frame, (11th century). It is D-shaped, with a thickened outside edge which is faceted. There are animal-head terminals facing each other to either side of the bar, which is narrowed and circular in section. They have dots for eyes and ears which are flattened against the head; they hold the bar in their mouths. The metalwork is pitted and patinated and any other decorative detail is now lost. Along the centre of the ridge on the outside edge there is a short strip of oblique grooves forming cable decoration. A pin rest is visible on one side o…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B7CCA6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments from Roman Colchester derivative, Harlow style brooch, dated to 50-80. One fragment consists of the wings and upper bow only, of a Colchester derivative brooch with double lug. The wings are short and semi-cylindrical, and are plain and unfaceted. The coil and pin are missing. The line of the double lug at the centre continues forward and runs down the bow as a longitudinal ridge. The bow is flat-backed. The brooch measures 19.02mm in width across the wings, 5.46mm across the bow, and is 16.62mm in surviving length. It weighs 2.86g. The second fragment consists…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-130CB2
Object type: TAP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy late Medieval to early Post-Medieval barrel tap. It is complete except for the key, the top of which is missing due to old breaks. The tap has a downturned spout which is rectangular in section and the sides of which show copious tool-marking. This is attached to a polygonal spiggot 30.8mm in length, which has a flat base, and is sealed by a fixed key, circular in section with a drum-shaped base that fits into the spiggot. The upper part of the key is flat, 3.3mm in thickness, and tapers to its incomplete terminal. Examples shown by Read indicate that the key terminal c…
Created on: Monday 14th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Akenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-74AE15
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy core of a plated copy of a Gallic War uniface stater. cf. ABC 16
Created on: Monday 19th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-71EF77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman Republican denarius struck by the moneyer L. Valerius Flaccus dating to the period 108 or 107 BC. RRC p. 316, no. 306.
Created on: Monday 19th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edwardstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F79731
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative,Rear hook lbrooch fragment. It is incomplete due to old breaks, and consists of the top of the bow and wings only of a Colchester brooch , rear hook type. The wings are 19.98mm in width, and are a shallow, semi-circular shape, with two lines of decoration ochester derivative, h. There is moulding on the top of the bow which is rectangular in section, with a small ridge where the rear hook begins, but is now missing . The brooch fragments measures 13.11mm in length and weighs 2.69g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6BED31
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman radiate, 260-296 AD, too worn for further identification
Created on: Monday 1st August 2011
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-3D5A36
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A group of Roman potsherds. a) rim sherd, white fabric with black slip,from Nene Valley 'hunt cup' or beaker, 2nd-3rd century AD b) one mortarium body sherd , smooth orange fabric with grey 'sandwich', Had/Ox fabric, with red and white grits adhering, c) one rim sherd from jar, in red ware, Had/Ox fabric d) one body sherd Nene Valley red/brown colour coated e) one body sherd, coarse ware from storage vessel f) one sherd micaceous grey ware with band of finger-tip decoration g) two grey ware rim sherds, one with bands or stab decoration below rim, and one with applied …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.