Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10166 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flint and Roman metal finds (Morningthorpe, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Roman coin was ploughed up in 1929. Fifty years later, fieldwalking recovered a prehistoric flint axe.
Images - none
Location
Full description
The finds detailed below were recovered from Morningthorpe parish but the exact location of the findspots are unknown.
November 1929.
Follis of Constantine I ploughed up.
Oberse; IMP CONSTANTINVS PF AVG.
Reverse; ---7IPA7F CONSERVATORI (?barbarous).
See (S1); from R.R. Clarke (NCM).
1979. Fieldwalking.
Axe. No further details, but assumed to be prehistoric flint.
Information from [1].
A. Cattermole (NLA), 24 May 2005.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 1000000 BC to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Morningthorpe. |
| <S1> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Evening News. [unknown]. [unknown]. 23 November. |
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