Record Details

NHER Number:29286
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze age chisel, medieval spur fragment, 17th century shoe buckle

Summary

Metal detecting in 1992 recovered a badly corroded Middle Bronze Age chisel, a medieval spur rowel 'box' and an elaborate 17th century shoe buckle.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 13 03
Map Sheet:TG10SW
Parish:WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1992. Metal detector finds along pipe line.
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy chisel (badly corroded). See drawing (S1).
Medieval spur rowel 'box'.
17th century very elaborate (probably shoe) buckle, moulded frame, amazing projecting 'lobes' and ribbed frame.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 3 November 1992.
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 30 October 1992.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • CHISEL (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Unknown. 1992. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy chisel. Paper. 1:1.

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