Record Details

NHER Number:29098
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metal finds

Summary

Metal detecting from 1992 to 2004 recovered a range of objects, including an Iron Age brooch, Roman, medieval and post medieval coins, a Middle Saxon pin head, a Late Saxon bridle side-link, medieval buckles and belt fittings and post medieval tokens and a strap fitting from a sword belt.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 11 43
Map Sheet:TG14SW
Parish:WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

March 1992. Metal detecting.
Roman brooch catchplate.
Twenty four Roman coins (See list in file).
Thirty six medieval and post medieval coins (See list in file).
Middle Saxon pin head. Polaroid (S1) NCM.
Medieval buckle plate. Polaroid (S1) NCM.
Medieval strap end buckle. Polaroid (S1) NCM.
Medieval copper alloy belt fitting. Polaroid (S1) NCM.
Medieval pin.
Medieval oval plate.
Roman brooch and coins identified by J. A. Davies (NCM).
Saxon/Medieval items identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
J. A. Davies (NCM), 15 May 1992.

July/August 1994. Metal detecting.
Two Roman coins, eight medieval coins, two post medieval coins, two post medieval tokens.
See lists in file.
Late Saxon bridle side-link with three knobs on end loops and central boss in form of animal head.
Late medieval or early post medieval strap fitting ?from sword belt. Two iron rivets. Pierced circle and projecting tab, a counter plate for another similar one. See (S2) Number 262.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 November 1994.

Before 21 May 2003. Metal detecting.
Iron Age La Tene I brooch, (S3).
?Medieval ?writing lead.
K. Hinds (NLA), 25 July 2003.

Before 3 September 2004. Metal detecting.
Sixteen medieval coins including two Tealbys. Five post medieval coins.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 30 November 2004.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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

  • BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • HARNESS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STYLUS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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>Monograph: Margeson, S.. 1993. Norwich Households: Medieval and post-medieval finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978.. East Anglian Archaeology. No 58.
<S3>Illustration: Hutchinson, N with Ashley, S.. 2003. Drawing of an Early/Middle Bronze Age la tene I type brooch.. Film. 2:1.

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