Experts say they don't know what the early Anglo-Saxon object is, but it could be part of a sword.
Dr Geake said they occasionally found a bit of a sword pommel - a fitting at the top of a sword handle - but the mystery object was not that.
"It is an odd-shape and has a cutaway bit so it looks like it fits into something else, like Lego," she said. "It doesn't have any rivets to fix it on to something so when it gets to the British Museum we've asked for the underneath to be analysed for evidence of solder as it might have been soldered onto something.
"It's not an actual ring but is kind of circular but it is not like any known Anglo-Saxon sword ring.She said it was "yet another mystery" and as BBC readers had "Find BBC News: East of England on
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