Record Details

NHER Number:20246
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds scatter

Summary

An early Neolithic laurel leaf, made of flint, and Iron Age and Roman coins, found by metal detecting, and part of a larger scatter, which is indicative of a settlement near this site during the Iron Age and Roman periods.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TG30NE
Parish:LINGWOOD AND BURLINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1982 to 1984.
Found with metal detecting.
Roman coin, As of Claudius, irregular copy of Minerva SC type, probably struck about 60 AD.
Identified A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM) April 1984.

Spring 1988.
No. 154; Iron Age coin, stater, Norfolk wolf.
W. Milligan (NCM), 28 October 1988.

September 2001. Metal detecting.
(Probably) Early Neolithic laurel leaf.
See further description in file.
K. Hinds (NLA), 31 October 2001.

Large scatter including [1]. The number of Iron Age and Roman finds from this area suggests that this was the site of a settlement in the Iron Age and Roman period, although its exact nature is uncertain.
Sarah Spooner (NLA) August 2005.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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

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