Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25893 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Fine medieval finger ring and vessel escutcheon, multi-period metal objects and coins |
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Summary
Metal-detecting here in 1990 recovered a beautiful medieval silver finger ring and a superb cast bronze vessel handle escutcheon in the form of female head. The ring had a bezel in the form of gilded openwork crown above clasped hands. Subsequent metal-detecting in the same area during 2005-06 retrieved Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins along with a medieval coin weight, medieval seal matrix, post-medieval animal bell and post-medieval cloth seal. Metal-detecting in 2010 recovered a medieval gilt harness stud and a post-medieval silver bar mount.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG04SW |
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| Parish: | WIVETON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1990. Found with metal detector. [1].
At [1].
Lovely 15th century silver finger ring. Bezel in form of gilded openwork crown above clasped hands. Incomplete inscription on hoop AVE MA and beginning of next letter. Bezel has been joined to hoop and bezel is upside down. Either ring has been reduced in size or parts of two rings cannibalised. See for comparison Oman, British Rings, 1974, plate 55 no. H, for similar bezel. Photographed. In general area of other two finds. Medieval bronze dagger chape; decorated with zone of double lines at top and bottom.
At [2].
Lovely unusually large cast bronze vessel handle escutcheon with deep socket in back, in form of female head. Weight 285.75g. Se for comparison example from Carrow Abbey (site 296N) excavated by M. Atkin (Norwich Survey) in NCM.
Photographed.
Information from finder.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NAU) 1 November 1990.
Summer 2005. Metal detecting, finders' field 29A.
Three Roman, nine medieval and three post medieval coins.
Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file and CD.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 September 2006.
6 February 2006. Metal detecting. Field 14.
Two Roman, eighteen medieval and thirteen post medieval coins.
Bronze Age, medieval and post medieval metal objects.
Two post medieval jettons.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 15 November 2006.
August 2010. Metal-detecting. Field 8.
Medieval harness mount and post-medieval silver mount.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 10 December 2010.
August 2014. Metal-detecting. Discovery Tours, Field 3. Site extended to whole field. [2].
DT082014 - PAS details to follow.
For additional low grade finds not recorded by HES see (S1) in file.
A. Beckham (HES), 30 September 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 337 AD)
- STRAP END (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- DAGGER (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINGER RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- LOCK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROWEL SPUR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SCABBARD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SCABBARD (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STUD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SUNDIAL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1189 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1203 AD to 1216 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1281 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1286 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1289 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1282 AD to 1289 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1307 AD to 1309 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1310 AD to 1314 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1352 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1390 AD to 1406 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1415 AD to 1497 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1415 AD to 1497 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1422 AD to 1427 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1480 AD to 1500 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (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)
- COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROWEL SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SCABBARD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP END (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1550 AD to 1584 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1635 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1584 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1558 AD to 1561 AD)
- COIN (16th Century to 17th Century - 1582 AD to 1603 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1602 AD to 1603 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1614 AD to 1636 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1668 AD to 1668 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Publication: British Museum. 2012. Treasure Act Annual Report 2010. p xxxix. |
| --- | Photograph: Riddler, I.. 2005. Digital photographs of Discovery Tours finds, Summer 2005. CD. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: FVA 30-35, FTJ 14-19. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Discovery Tours. 2014. Discovery Tours Low Grade Material Record Sheet. Field Nos. 3 and 4.. |
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