Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29487 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
A large piece of a Middle Saxon pottery pitcher was found by chance before 1983. Fieldwalking in 1993 recovered Iron Age, Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery fragments, while metal-detecting in 2015 and 2019 recovered a medieval buckle and seal matrix.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0647 1961 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01NE |
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| Parish: | SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Stray find by farmer, some years ago.
Grid reference approimate. Large sherd of pimply Ipswich Ware, spouted pitcher, including broken spout.
Identified by A.Rogerson (NLA), February 1993.
Fieldwalking on 1 February 1993 produced scatter as noted below.
One body sherd gritty Iron Age.
One small sandy body sherd Ipswich Ware, Middle Saxon.
Four jar rims, two bases (one flat), one body sherd (diamond roulette), Thetford Type Ware, Late Saxon.
Six rims unglazed medieval.
Forty four non differentiated Thetford Type/Medieval unglazed Late Saxon/Medieval.
Four Grimston glazed body medieval.
One Langerwehe stoneware, medieval.
One Glazed Red Earthenware, post medieval.
Identified by A.Rogerson (NLA), 12 February 1993.
B. Cushion (NLA), 4 February 1993.
January- February 1997. Metal detecting.
2 medieval seal matrices (one published in 1999) (S2).
see list in file,
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 16 December 2009.
August 2015. Metal-detecting. Discovery Tours, Field 15. Site extended 215m to the south-east.
Finds recorded by HES on the PAS database [1]:
DT082015 - PAS details to follow.
Information from PAS import.
Finds recorded by Discovery Tours, I. Riddler or A. Marsden:
Details to follow.
Also see (S1) for details of low grade material recovered from this field and Discovery Tours fields 13 and 14.
A. Beckham (HES), 30 September 2015.
July-September 2015. Metal-detecting. [2].
Medieval buckle.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 6 November 2015.
August 2019. Metal-detecting. [3].
Medieval seal matrix.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 December 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 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
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1400 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Discovery Tours. 2015. Discovery Tours Low Grade Material Record Sheet. Fields 13, 14 and 15. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Geake, H., Rogerson, A. and Ashley, S. 1999. Medieval Seal Matrices from Norfolk, 1996-1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 353-358. no 35, p 355. |
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