Record Details

NHER Number:28413
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal-detecting in 1990 recovered a Mesolithic flint blade; a Roman coin; Roman pottery sherds and several metal objects, including a Roman steelyard weight and terret and a medieval hooked dress fastener.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 16 03
Map Sheet:TG10SE
Parish:KETTERINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1990. Fieldwalking and metal-detecting.
Found west of Icehouse Farm:
1 Mesolithic flint blade (soft hammer-struck, patinated).
1 Roman coin and 2 pottery sherds (greyware), 1 copper alloy boss and terret fragment (Polaroid NCM) and 1 lead steelyard weight (weight 81.27g).
1 medieval double-hooked fastener with one hook missing, decorated with lozenge-shaped plaque rivetted in place with rocker-arm decorative borders and cross-motif in centre (Polaroid NCM).
Flint identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) 11 September 1990 and metal objects by W. Milligan (NCM) and
S. Margeson (NCM). Coin identified by E. B. Green (NCM); see list in file.
The Norwich Castle Museum holds a number of pottery sherds from this site (NWHCM : 1999.324.5.1). These are however listed as medieval - it is unclear whether these are additional objects not initially seen by the museum or a confusion with the 'greyware' sherds listed above.
W. Milligan (NCM) 23 August 1990. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 March 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STEELYARD WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • DRESS HOOK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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