Record ID: SF-7A5E82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver sceat, Primary Series Z, Type 66, dating to circa AD 680-720 (N 145). Obverse: bust facing with long hair, moustache and beard within an inner circle. Reverse: beast with long legs right, head down and tail. Ref: Abramson 2006, pg 75: Z220; North 1980: 42. The coin is recorded on EMC under 2023.0220.
Created on: Friday 18th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cotton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-429349
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Medieval Scottish cut halfpenny of Alexander III (AD 1249-86), first coinage (long cross and stars), uncertain type (Spink S5040-5048) dating to AD 1250-86. Uncertain mint and moneyer. Ref: Spink 2015, pg 16-17.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bucklesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9CE71E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A clipped silver Scottish hammered penny of Alexander III (1249-86), second coinage, class Mb2 (Spink S5054) dating 1280-1292. Mullet of six-points in each angle of reverse, giving a total of 24 points. Ref: Spink 2015, pg 19.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cockfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5DE284
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval gold coin, a contemporary 9th-century Anglo-Frisian copy of a Carolingian solidus of Louis the Pious (814-840). The coin has been partially bent due to post-depositional damage.
Created on: Friday 16th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-428C73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval silver penny; Viking imitation of a coin of Alfred of Wessex (871-99), c.880-899 AD. North 475.1; mint and moneyer unknown. The flan is slightly bent and has a small area of damage to one edge.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4AA4E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold 7th-century Anglo-Saxon shilling modified for usage as a pendant or similar item, c.660-680 AD. It is of Sutherland type II.ii.var: Roman: Constantine (26var) with star-like object on the obverse instead of hand and cross as in Sutherland 26. The coin has been pierced and the remains of a separately cast cylindrical silver rivet are present towards one side of the flan, indicative of modification for usage as something other than a coin. Coins of this period were commonly either looped or pierced for suspension and worn as pendants, and it is likely that the purpose of the…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', 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-0C2A17
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold Anglo-Saxon preliminary phase primary sceatta of the runic Pada type (series Pa IA), c.655-680 AD. Metcalf, 1993: pp. 75-76; North, 1980: no. 151.
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FA22F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver early medieval coin of the Danelaw, Saint Edmund Memorial penny with shortened, blundered legends, c.890-910 AD. Moneyer: Odalbert. North 483. The coin has a long crack leading towards the centre of the flan due to post-depositional damage.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-58D5E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Anglo-Saxon Primary Phase sceat; probable contemporary imitation Series B combining an obverse die derived from Series BX with a reverse loosely based upon Series B. Dr. Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum) notes that the form of the cross and extra annulets around it are unlike any regular coin from Series B. Similar to British Museum types 26-27a-b.
Created on: Friday 13th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetheringsett cum Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.