Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25755 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman pewter plate |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1990 recovered the fragmentary remains of most of a Roman pewter plate.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 65 11 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 1990. Metal detecting. In pasture field 45cm (18 inches) deep.
Fragmentary remains of most of a flat pewter plate, distorted, rim diameter about 30 cm. Two shallow turned grooves in centre of upper surface, diameter 15 and 22 mm. Rim is type 1 of Peal's typology, see (S1). Late 3rd to early 4th century?
Identified by D. Gurney (NAU). To be photographed.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 3 May 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- PLATE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Peale, C. A.. 1967. Roman pewter plates and dishes.. Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society. Vol LX, pp 19-37. |
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