Record Details

NHER Number:16035
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Casual collecting and metal-detecting between 1980 and 2013 recovered prehistoric flint flakes; Iron Age, Roman, Early/Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman tile and quern stone fragments; a post-medieval gunflint and Roman and post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman skirted terret ring and post-medieval buckle fragments and a lead musket ball.

Images

  • Roman harness ring from NHER 16035  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 05 12
Map Sheet:TG01SE
Parish:NORTH TUDDENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

April 1980. East side field south of church. Ploughed surface. Context 1.
Small quantity of abraded sherds including rim of Thetford Ware, medieval coarse ware, and post-medieval.
A. Lawson (NAU), 29 April 1980.

1981. Context 2. Over this area and rest of field.
Four flint flakes.
Three Roman greyware.
One Roman storage jar rim.
One very abraded probably storage jar calcite gritted?
One micaceous grey core, oxidised surface, Roman or late medieval?
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU), 24 March 1981.

13 October 2008. Metal-detecting.
Iron age, Roman, Early/Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval pottery. A fragment of millstone grit Roman quern stone, two fragments of a post-medieval buckle, a lead musket ball and a gunflint. Prehistoric flint flakes.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 March 2009.

Before 18 January 2011. Surface collection.
A prehistoric flint flake, possible Iron Age pottery, Roman pottery, tile and quern stone, medieval pottery.
See description in file.
E. Darch (HES), 7 March 2011.

February-March 2013. Metal-detecting. [2].
Roman copper alloy skirted terret ring.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 September 2013.

See [3].
A. Beckham (HES), 2 May 2017.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 200 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 411 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MUSKET BALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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