Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21546 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age Iceni coin |
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Summary
Metal detecting in June 1985 in an old gravel pit at Gricey's Earth recovered a silver coin of the Iceni tribe.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TM49NW |
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| Parish: | NORTON SUBCOURSE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1985. In soil pushed in to fill old gravel pit at Gricey's Earth, more or less as marked on OS provisional series 6in map. Found with metal-detector.
Iceni silver coin, pattern-horse type inscribed ECEN.
There is no local knowledge of soil being imported to fill the pit, so it is likely that the coin originated in or near the pit.
A. Gregory (NAU) 4 July 1985.
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. |
Related records - none
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