Record Details

NHER Number:19364
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking between 1981 and 1983 recovered prehistoric worked flints and post medieval pottery fragments. Metal detecting in 1989 found a Middle Saxon brooch.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 23 93
Map Sheet:TM29SW
Parish:HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1981/2 and 1982/3. Fieldwalking; Packway Close, southeast corner only. Worked flint. Post medieval sherds. Black soil. Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 28 July 1983.

November to December 1989. Metal detecting. Middle Saxon caterpillar or 'ansate' brooch with trefoil ends to arms.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM). For location see 1:2500 map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 January 1990.

Monument Types

  • SITE (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Photograph: FHM15-16.

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