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Full description

1977. [1]
On ploughed surface. Scatter of worked flint flakes.

Pre June 1986. Further fieldwalking, finder's site A.
One bifacially worked roughout for a large leaf arrowhead or small leaf point.
Eight scrapers, eight flakes with various retouch, six cores.
Sixty-nine flakes, ten blades.
All Neolithic.
Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU), June 1986.

October - November 2004. Metal-detecting. Site extended to whole field. [2]
1 Roman coin.
5 medieval coins and 1 pottery sherd (unglazed).
2 ?medieval lead pot mends.
10 post-medieval coins, 6 jettons, 8 tokens, 1 coin weight (2 pennyweight), 1 lead seal, 5 trade weights (3; 1/4oz, 2; 2oz, one has a crown emblem dating to either Charles I or Charles II, 4 lead, 1 copper alloy), 6 lead cloth seals (inc one with the coat of arms of the commonwealth), 1 lead ?cloth seal, 1 lead powder charge cap or measure, 16 lead musket balls and12 lead weights.
1 ?post-medieval ?staple.
Pottery identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), numismatic items by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in secondary file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 December 2004.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 11 March 2014.

December 2004 to January 2005. Metal detecting.
One medieval and one post medieval coin.
Post medieval coin weight.
See list in secondary file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 February 2005.

January-February 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval coin and 1 buckle.
1 post-medieval coin weight and 1 jetton.
Numismatic items identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in secondary file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 11 March 2005.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 20 February 2014.

September - October 2009. Metal detecting.
Late Saxon buckle (S1), medieval/post-medieval coin weight, 5 post-medieval coins and 2 tokens, and post-medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 November 2009.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

• BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• ROUGHOUT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• BUCKLE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
• BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• COIN WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• DAGGER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• MUSKET BALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• POWDER MEASURE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SCISSORS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• STAPLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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• Parish Summary: Postwick (Parish Summary)