In March 2015, Dr Tom Licence, director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies, led a group of students and school pupils from Diss on a dig in the grounds behind Diss Town Council offices. Their aim was to locate and explore rubbish-pits of former inhabitants of Diss.

 

One of the more interesting objects found was a medieval bronze strap-end from a 13th century belt. This indicated that the site had been inhabited 400 years earlier than the earliest previously recorded of 1637.

 

Also unearthed was a fragment of glazed pottery depicting a cow. We don’t know what the original object was, but it could have been a jug, dating from the 19th century.

 

Can you help us identify it?