Record Details
| NHER Number: | 28844 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting and fieldwalking in 1991 recovered ?Early Saxon and undatable pottery sherds; a Bronze Age copper alloy sword blade fragment and two Early Saxon brooch fragments. A Mesolithic or later quartzite pebble mace was found here in 1994.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 99 35 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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| Parish: | HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Late 1991. Fieldwalking and metal-detecting.
Found by [1] (finder's Field 48):
1 Bronze Age copper alloy sword blade fragment. Drawn (S1).
2 Early Saxon brooch fragments.
2 ?Early Saxon pottery sherds.
1 undatable pottery sherd.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM), S. Margeson (NCM) and A. Rogerson (NLA). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 March 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES),
1994. Stray Find.
Mesolithic or later quartzite pebble mace with hour-glass perforation. Petrology No.N329 (quartzite, not 'cored'). See drawing (S2).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file. This discovery was reported in (S3).
Although recorded as probably Mesolithic it should be noted that these objects are generally seen as not closely datable, having been found in both Mesolithic and later prehistoric contexts.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 October 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- PEBBLE MACE (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD? to 650 AD?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Ashley, S. 1992. Drawing of a Bronze Age sword blade fragment. Film. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1994. Drawing of a Mesolithic or later quartzite pebble mace from Hindringham. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1995. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1994. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt II pp 221-229. p 221. |
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