Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15540 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Bronze Age ring ditch and multi-period metal objects |
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Summary
Aerial photographs taken in 1976 show the cropmarks of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch at this location. Subsequent metal detecting here in 1987 recovered a Late Iron Age/early Roman terret, a possible 4th century coin, a medieval bronze ring brooch and medieval and post medieval buckles.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 68 01 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60SE |
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| Parish: | WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Ordnance Survey aerial photograph.
Cropmarks of ring ditch 17m in diameter.
Site identified by King's Lynn Office of Ordnance Survey, reported by (S1) and photography inspected by D. Edwards (NAU).
See Unit 6in scale map overlays.
D. Edwards (NAU) 8 December 1979.
1987. Found at this site, or at NHER 16160.
1) Late Iron Age/early Roman terret (compare to NHER 9382)
2) Possible 4th century coin
3) 15th/16th century bronze circular buckle. Five decorated 'lobes', tongue missing.
4) Medieval bronze purse-bar with swivel loop. See for comparison LMMC type B1.
5) 13th century bronze ring brooch, set with two bosses containing white paste (possibly once had glass pellets). Eight tiny pins set regularly between the two bosses; pin looped through hole in ring.
6) Medieval D-shaped buckle frame.
All Polaroid NCM, except coin.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) 11 July 1990.
Polaroids of medieval objects (S1) in file.
E. Rose
Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Undated)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HARNESS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS AP 76 101 349. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-101-348. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
Related records
| 16160 | Related to: Cropmarks of possible Bronze Age ring ditch and multi-period finds (Monument) |
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