Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2946 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic, and Roman to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
A Neolithic flaked flint axehead was found in 1962. Metal-detecting in 2019 and 2020 recovered medieval and post-medieval coins; as well as Early Bronze Age to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include an Early Bronze Age unidentified object; an Early Bronze Age to post-medieval plain ring; Roman to post-medieval weight; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; as Late Saxon/medieval spindle whorl; a medieval pot mend; medieval/post-medieval cloth seals and a copper alloy vessel fragment, and a thimble.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 04 02 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG00SW |
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| Parish: | HINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1962. Stray Find.
1 Neolithic chipped flint axehead of glacial flint. See drawing (S1).
Identified by E. B. Green (NCM).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 November 2015.
May 2019-January 2020. Metal-detecting. [1].
Early Bronze Age copper alloy unidentified object.
Early Bronze Age to post-medieval plain copper alloy ring.
Roman to post-medieval weight.
Late Saxon/medieval spindle whorl.
3 medieval coins, buckles, and a pot mend.
Medieval/post-medieval cloth seals, a copper alloy vessel fragment and thimble.
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
E. McDonald (HES), 7 April 2020.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age to 19th Century - 2350 BC to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman to 19th Century - 43 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RING (Early Bronze Age to 19th Century - 2350 BC to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Bronze Age to 19th Century - 2350 BC to 1900 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman to 19th Century - 43 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to Medieval - 900 AD to 1400 AD)
- POT MEND (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1189 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 17th Century - 1250 AD to 1650 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1352 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1450 AD to 1700 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1700 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1700 AD)
- THIMBLE (16th Century to 18th Century - 1520 AD to 1750 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1636 AD to 1644 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 00 SW 15. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1962. Drawing of a Neolithic flaked flint axehead. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hingham. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 3. |
Related records - none
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