Record Details

NHER Number:28161
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

A Roman coin, a Late Saxon strap end, a medieval mirror case, and a post medieval buckle and a pair of tweezers or tongs found during metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 17 03
Map Sheet:TG10SE
Parish:KETTERINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February 1990. Found with metal detecting.
Late medieval circular buckle, tongue folded over bar. Polaroid NCM.
Early post medieval double looped buckle frame fragment; openwork belt mount or fitting; copper alloy decorated 16th/17th century arm of pair of tongs or tweezers or small spoon for spices. All context 1.
Context 2 at [1].
10th century strap end fragment with engraved chevron ornament below split end, recessed field with animal
in profile (head and front leg). Polaroid NCM.
Context 3 at [2].
13th century complete mirror case.
Compare with example in (S1). Polaroid NCM.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM) 14 February 1990.

February 1990. Metal detecting finds.
Context 4 at [3]
Coin, Faustina I commemmorative coin 141AD struck under Antoninus Pius d161.
Identified by E.B. Green (NCM) 21 August 1990
List in file.
W. Milligan (NCM) 14 February 1990

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MIRROR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1984. [unknown]. Antiquaries Journal.

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