Record Details

NHER Number:16785
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age copper alloy coin

Summary

Metal detecting here in 1980 recovered an Iron Age copper alloy coin depicting a charging bull.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TL69SW
Parish:SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

19 August 1980. Found with metal detector.
Iron Age bronze coin, potin, cast copy of Massilia charging bull coin, tete diabolique type.
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
Photographs taken by KLM and NAU. See (S1).
Cast made by NCM.
See (S2).
R. Trett (KLM) November 1980.

Part of large scatter [1].

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: BPQ 1-5, 13-15.
<S2>Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1980. Drawing of an Iron Age copper alloy coin.. Film. 2:1.

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