Record Details

NHER Number:29671
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal-detecting between 1993 and 2013 recovered medieval and post-medieval coins; a post-medieval token and a number of other metal objects, including an important Late Saxon strap fitting and lead weight; a medieval copper alloy casket key and lead weight; a medieval/post-medieval lead weight; post-medieval strap fitting and undatable copper alloy casting waste.

Images

  • A Late Saxon strap fitting from Upton with Fishley.  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and S. White
  • Late Saxon weight from NHER 29671  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 38 12
Map Sheet:TG31SE
Parish:UPTON WITH FISHLEY, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1993. Metal-detector find.
Medieval bronze casket key.
W. Milligan (NCM), 19 January 1993.

1993. Metal-detecting.
Late Saxon copper sheathed lead weight that weighs exactly 1½ Troy ounces, (S2).
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 28 March 2011.

November 2003. Metal-detecting.
Important Late Saxon strap fitting, (S1).
See description and letter in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 January 2004.

8 October 2005. Metal-detecting (site extended).
Post-medieval strap fitting and undatable casting waste.
See list and finder's map (S3) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 21 December 2005.

September 2009. Metal-detecting.
One post-medieval coin and one token. No further details are available.
See [1].
A. Rogerson (HES), 21 May 2011.

Before May 2010. Metal-detecting.
Two post-medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Marsden (NLA), 18 May 2010.

July-September 2013. Metal-detecting. [2].
2 medieval coins and lead weight.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel leg and lead weight.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 October 2013.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 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

  • CASTING WASTE (Unknown date)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1500 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1200 AD to 1700 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1600 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)
  • TOKEN (17th Century - 1668 AD to 1668 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century to 18th Century - 1695 AD to 1701 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: White, S.. 2003. Drawing of a Late Saxon copper alloy belt/strap mount.. Film. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2011. Drawing of a Late Saxon copper-sheathed lead weight.. Film.
<S3>Unpublished Document: Davies, G. 2005. Finder's maps and notes for metal-detecting by G. Davies in March 2002 and between 4 September and 16 October 2005. Finder's map.

Related records - none

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