Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18264 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic to Bronze Age, Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
In 1979 a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age flint scrapers and flakes were recovered from this area, as well medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds. Metal-detecting between 2015 and 2018 recovered Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins as well as a Roman and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman hooked vessel escutcheon; a Late Saxon to post-medieval spindle whorl; medieval buckles; a medieval/post-medieval pin and a post-medieval hooked mount.
Images
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 11 03 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10SW |
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| Parish: | WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Autumn 1979. Drilled field at Downham. [1].
Twenty-three rough little flakes, two scrapers. Neolithic/Bronze Age.
Eleven Little medieval sherds.
One sherd Westerwald stoneware.
Finder's site 255a.
Identified and compiled by A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980.
To NAU 1982.
14 -16 August 2015. Metal-detecting. Wymondham rally, Field 1. Site extended to whole field. [2].
2 Roman coins and a hooked vessel escutcheon.
1 medieval coin and a buckle.
Post-medieval hooked mount.
WymondhamRally082015 - Further PAS details to follow.
A. Beckham (HES), 11 August 2015.
14-16 August 2015. Metal-detecting. Wymondham rally, Field 1. [3].
1 medieval coin and a buckle.
Medieval/post-medieval pin.
2 post-medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 October 2015.
14-16 August 2015. Metal-detecting. Wymondham rally, Field 1. [4].
Late Saxon to post-medieval spindle whorl.
3 medieval coins and a buckle.
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 6 November 2015.
October-November 2015. Metal-detecting. [5].
Roman brooch.
3 medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 1 January 2016.
March-April 2018. Metal-detecting. [6].
2 medieval cions and a buckle.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2018.
(S1) - PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 23 September 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 200 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 75 AD to 125 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 325 AD to 326 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to 16th Century - 1000 AD to 1600 AD)
- COIN (Late Saxon - 1052 AD to 1053 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1150 AD to 1250 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1180 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1195 AD to 1249 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1218 AD to 1222 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1286 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1310 AD)
- PIN (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1305 AD to 1306 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1310 AD to 1314 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1344 AD to 1351 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1352 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1596 AD to 1596 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 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. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. Drawing of a Roman hooked vessel escutcheon. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1. |
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