Record Details
NHER Number: | 11953 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Iron Age pottery sherd |
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Summary
In 1971 a sherd of Iron Age pottery was found here by an Ordnance Survey inspector. Metal-detecting between 2011 and 2017 recovered Roman coins, Roman zoomorphic fish brooches and a furniture fitting.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 9535 3904 |
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Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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Parish: | WIGHTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
18 March 1971. 200m south of Copy's Green fort, against hedge.
A sherd of Iron Age pottery found by Ordnance Survey inspector 'BHS'.
January 2011-May 2013. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [1].
Finds identified by HES but not recorded on the PAS database:
10 Roman copper alloy coins.
These objects were previously recorded under NHER 58442.
A. Beckham (HES) and A. Rogerson (HES), 10 July 2013.
July 2015-April 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
15 Roman coins, brooches, two zoormorphic examples in the form of fish, one with crescentic impressions, the other with traces of red enamel and silvery inlay, and a furniture fitting.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 11 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 1 November 2017, 1 June 2018. [3].
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 296 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 285 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 360 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 324 AD to 329 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 343 AD to 348 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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