Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24031 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period metal objects and pottery sherds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting and fieldwalking here between 1987 and 2018 recovered prehistoric worked flint including ?Palaeolithic flint flakes; Neolithic flint flakes, blades, scrapers and a hammerstone; Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery; medieval/post-medieval jettons, post-medieval tokens; an undatable whetstone and Bronze Age to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Bronze Age brooch; an Iron Age or Saxon penannular brooch; a Roman headstud brooch; medieval buckles, a coin weight, harness pendant, and a copper alloy vessel rim fragment, a medieval/post-medieval purse bar fragment and thimble; and a post-medieval button, foliate from a sword belt hanger, dress hook, lead cloth seal, dome-headed stud and several crotal bells.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 21 20 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG22SW |
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| Parish: | STRATTON STRAWLESS, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Unknown date. Fieldwalking and metal-detecting?
Neolithic scrapers, flakes, retouched flakes, a blade, hammerstone and possible arrowhead or broken knife.
One medieval coin, pottery sherds, a coin weight, buckles and a copper alloy vessel rim fragment.
One post-medieval jetton, a button, lead cloth seal, dome-headed stud and several crotal bells.
See list in file.
Andrea Beckham (HES), 10 April 2013.
1987. Fieldwalking.
Four Roman sherds.
Lead glazed earthenware and stoneware.
Information from member of the public [1].
Identifications by A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 26 August 1987.
1988. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1]:
1 undatable prehistoric flint flake.
1 ?Palaeolithic flint flake.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 12 January 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
1989. Fieldwalking.
1 ?Palaeolithic flake.
Identified by J. J. Wymer. Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
1994. Metal detector finds. [2].
Penannular brooch, Fowler Type C. Apparently made from hollow rolled sheet. Pin broadens to wide strip where it forms loop. Pair of incised transverse lines next to loop. Weight 7.90g.
Polaroid taken by NCM. Iron Age, but possibly Early Saxon.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA).
Roman Head stud brooch. Polaroid taken by NCM.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 November 1994.
1996. Fieldwalking find. [3].
Undated whetstone.
See description and drawing in file.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM).
H. Geake (NCM), 11 November 1996.
April-May 2002. Metal-detecting. Area centred on location [4].
1 Middle-Late Saxon brooch fragment.
1 undatable pin.
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 15 June 2002.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 20 February 2014.
August 2010. Metal-detecting. Site extended.
Discovery Tours field 24.
6 Romano-British pot sherds, details of other finds to follow.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 1 February 2011.
August 2013. Metal-detecting. Discovery Tours, Field 5. [5].
DT2013 - PAS details to follow.
For additional finds not recorded by HES see (S2) in file.
A. Beckham (HES), 23 September 2013.
21 September 2017. Metal-detecting Rally. [6].
1 post-medieval token.
Information from PAS import.
The following finds are not recorded on the PAS database:
Post-medieval foliate from a sword belt hanger.
A. Beckham (HES), 13 November 2017.
22 September 2017. Metal-detecting Rally. [7].
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 May 2020.
23 September 2017. Metal-detecting. [8].
Medieval buckle.
2 medieval/post-medieval jettons.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 October 2017.
October 2017. Metal-detecting. [9].
Medieval/post-medieval thimble, and purse bar fragment.
Post-medieval dress hook.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 01 December 2017.
June-July 2018. Metal-detecting. [10].
Medieval foiliate harness pendant.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 October 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- PIN (Unknown date)
- WHETSTONE (Undated)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SPUR (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1300 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- THIMBLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1550 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1550 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (Medieval - 1470 AD to 1471 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1490 AD to 1550 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
- BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STUD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- SWORD BELT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1614 AD to 1625 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1667 AD to 1667 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Stratton Strawless ("Grove Field"). |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Discovery Tours. 2013. Discovery Tours Low Grade Material Record Sheet. Field 5. |
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