Record Details

NHER Number:29132
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal detecting between 1992 and 1998 recovered Roman, Saxon and medieval pottery fragments, part of an Iron Age neck ring, a Saxon brooch, a medieval pendant and medieval and post medieval coins.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 95 32
Map Sheet:TF93SE
Parish:LITTLE SNORING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

First half 1992. Metal detecting. Field 2.
Two flint scrapers and one blade
One base, one body sherd Roman greyware
Ten Thetford-type jar rims
Eleven body sherds, two bases Thetford-type
Four Thetford-type bowl rims
One rim early medieval jar
Nine medieval unglazed
Eight glazed Grimston
One rim Late medieval Transitional
No significant metal finds
A. Rogerson (NLA).

November 1997. Metal detecting.
Middle Saxon disc brooch with backward-biting animal.
Medieval heraldic pendant.
Medieval and post medieval coins.
See list and coin form in file.
D.Gurney (NLA), 20 January 1998.

January 1998. Metal detecting.
Iron Age neckring fragment.
See list in file.
D.Gurney (NLA) 13 March 1998.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • 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

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • NECK RING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

Related records - none

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