Record Details

NHER Number:16111
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Prehistoric flint flakes, a Neolithic stone axehead, Late Saxon pottery, a Late Saxon strap-end, a medieval chrismatory with a wooden stopper, medieval seal matrices, a medieval coin, medieval and post medieval pottery, a post medieval jetton and other finds found during metal detecting and fieldwalking.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 20 93
Map Sheet:TM29SW
Parish:LONG STRATTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1980. Southwest of church. Surface finds, ploughed field.
Medieval sherds; one Thetford-type rim; 3 lead glazed earthenware rims.
Flint flakes.
W. Milligan (NCM) 1980.

October 1995. Metal detecting.
Iron slag spread, Roman metalworking debris. Two samples at NCM, 168.982.
W. Milligan (NCM), 1997.

October 2001. Metal detecting. Club rally at northwest end of field, see [1].
2 medieval seal matrices.
Neolithic stone axe.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 December 2001.

September/October 2002. Metal detecting. Northern end.
Medieval swivel.
Post medieval jetton.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 November 2002.

July/August 2003. Metal detecting. See [2].
Medieval coin.
Post medieval metal finds.
Post medieval ?powder flask reidentified as medieval chrismatory, (S2).
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 September 2003.

September/October 2003. Metal detecting.
Fragment of Late Saxon strap end or trefoil brooch at [3], (S3).
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 December 2003.

Late Saxon ?brooch found September/October 2003 reidentified as a strap-end.
See letter (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 January 2004.

September- October 2008. Metal Detecting.
1 Roman coin and post-medieval knife end-stop.
See list in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 18 November 2008

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • STRAP END (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • CHRISMATORY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • LEASH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KNIFE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POWDER FLASK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Paterson, C.. 2004. Letter.
<S2>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2003. Drawing of a Early Post Medeival copper alloy chrismatory with a wooden stopper.. Film. 2:1.
<S3>Illustration: White, S.. 2003. Drawing of a Late Saxon strap-end.. Film. 2:1.

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