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Record Details

NHER Number:25773
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds

Summary

Metal-detecting and fieldwalking on this site between 1990 and 2015 has recovered a large quantity of Roman coins, pottery fragments and other Roman metal finds, including some brooches that show signs of repair. These finds suggest that this was the site of a small Roman settlement. Prehistoric flints; Iron Age coins, pottery and a brooch; a Roman/Early Saxon brooch; an Early Saxon brooch; a Middle Saxon coin; Late Saxon pottery and medieval and post medieval coins, pottery and metal finds have also been found on the site.

Images

  • Middle/Late Saxon strap-end from NHER 25773 © Norfolk County Council
  • Post-medieval cloth seal from NHER 25773 © Norfolk County Council
  • Drawing of a Roman strap-end from NHER 25773 © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TF93NE
Parish:HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

March 1990. Finder's Field 20. Found with metal detecting, and surface finds.
Iron Age, Roman and medieval sherds.
Roman tile.
62 Roman coins (HoV, HoC, Vespasian, Magnentius, Gratian, Augustan denarius), see list in file.
Pot mends.
Post medieval metalwork.
Roman finger rings and late Roman buckle. See (S1).
Medieval coin of Edward I, jetton, spur, belt mount and belt stiffener.
D. Gurney (NLA) 6 April 1990.

December 1990. Further metal detecting finds.
Prehistoric flints.
Roman and medieval metalwork.
A. Rogerson (NLA) April 1991.

1991. Metal detecting find.
Roman bracelet.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 February 1992.

1992/3. Metal detecting finds.
Neolithic flints.
Roman coins.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 July 1993.

1994. Generally located.
Neolithic flints.
Roman and medieval coins and metalwork.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 20 March 1995.

1994/June 1995. Metal detecting finds.
Prehistoric, Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age flints.
Roman, medieval, post medieval coins.
Roman and medieval/post medieval sherds.
Medieval and post medieval metalwork.
Roman weight.
Early Saxon brooch.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 13 October 1995.

1995/6. Metal detecting and fieldwalking.
Prehistoric flint.
Roman and medieval coins.
Roman sherd and stud.
Medieval buckle.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 29 May 1996.

See file for details of all finds.

Before 14 September 2005. Metal detecting.
Four Roman and one Middle Saxon coins.
Iron Age brooch.
See lists and (S2) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 September 2005.

Before 12 October 2005. Metal detecting.
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife.
Iron Age coin.
Roman sherds, spindle whorl and metal objects.
134 Roman coins.
Late Saxon sherd.
8 medieval coins.
Post medieval horseshoe.
Undatable hone.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 November 2005.

Before 9 November 2005. Metal detecting.
42 Roman and 1 post medieval coins.
Roman sherds.
Roman, medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 December 2005.

Before 22 December 2005. Metal detecting.
Roman furniture knob and one medieval coin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 January 2006.

Before 8 November 2007. Metal detecting.
Neolithic burnt flints, Romano-British, post-medieval and undatable metal objects, 38 Roman and one post medieval coin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 January 2008.

Before 14 October 2008. Metal Detecting
prehistoric flint flake, fragment of a Late Bronze Age chisel (S3), twenty-seven Roman and one medieval coin
See list in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 20 January 2009

11 February 2009. Metal detecting
Eleven Roman and three medieval coins, Roman bracelet fragment.
see lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 25 March 2009

Before 5 September 2011. Metal-detecting.
Finds identified by HES but not recorded on the PAS database:
Prehistoric flint flake, thirty Roman, seven medieval and one post-medieval coin; Roman, Roman/Early Saxon, Middle/Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
Finds recorded on the PAS database [2]:
5 Roman coins.
4 medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
A. Rogerson (HES), 19 September 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 January 2013.

July-October 2012. Metal-detecting.
One Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 February 2013.

January-December 2015. Metal-detecting. [3].
Roman/Early Saxon amphora strap-end fragment with chip-carved decorative motifs (S4).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2020.

(S4) - PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 9 October 2019.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • NAIL (Undated)
  • POT (Undated)
  • STUD (Undated)
  • WASHER (Unknown date)
  • WHETSTONE (Unknown date)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • CHISEL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • HAIR PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • HAIR PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PRICK SPUR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STEELYARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
  • STUD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 402 AD)
  • STRAP END (Roman to Early Saxon - 350 AD to 450 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 353 AD to 364 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 367 AD to 378 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 378 AD to 402 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • COIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • STRAP END (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CRUCIFIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DAGGER (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PADLOCK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPUR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STUD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SWORD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1145 AD to 1150 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1204 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1281 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1297 AD to 1302 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HORSESHOE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Unpublished Document: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and British Museum. 2008. Treasure Annual Report 2005/6. pp 66, 71 and 128; Nos 153, 192 and 532.
---Photograph: POL 13.
---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Unpublished Document: Gurney, D.. 2006. Roman Brooch Repairs at Hindringham, Norfolk. January.
---Photograph: 1995. LCN 25-26, Early Saxon brooch head plate..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
<S2>Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
<S3>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2009. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed chisel.. Film. 1:1.
<S4>Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of a Roman strap-end. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

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