Record Details

NHER Number:19502
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age palstave and post medieval seal

Summary

A Bronze Age palstave and a post medieval multiple seal matrix found during metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 66 17
Map Sheet:TF61NE
Parish:MIDDLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Summer 1983. Metal-detecting.
Found at Tower End.
Much corroded, broken, central fragment of Bronze Age single-looped palstave.
See drawing (S1).
Seen September 1983 by J. Wymer (NAU).
Details from A. Rogerson (NAU).
Compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 19 September 1983.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.

January 1989. 'Within a yard or two' of above find.
Triangular section of copper alloy multiple seal matrix (fob seal) with three oval faces depicting/inscribed the following:
1. Bust r. TITVS CAESAR;
2. Winged figure with bow r. and bird (?) above IAI ETE HEVREVY FIDE ET AMORE;
3. Clasped hands.
Small circular longitudinal perforation with arc of small punched dots on curved surface of upper end.
Post medieval.
Cast NCM.
A. Rogerson (NAU) 15 February 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age to 19th Century - 2350 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SEAL (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: CKT 1-5-N.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J. 1983. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. Card. 1:1.

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