Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29920 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic/Bronze Age flints, multi-period metal objects, coins and pottery sherds |
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Summary
Metal detecting here in 1993 recovered various items including an Iron Age coin, a Late Saxon knife, a Roman Hod Hill brooch, a medieval buckle frame, a medieval repousse rosette belt boss. Subsequent fieldwalking at the site in 1997 retrieved Neolithic/Bronze Age flints as well as sherds of Roman, Late Saxon and medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF71NE |
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| Parish: | WESTACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1993. Metal detector finds. Context 1.
Twelve Roman coins.
One Iron Age coin. Photograph. See lists in file.
Late Saxon knife with angled back and incurved tip, iron.
Roman bronze Hod Hill brooch 1st century AD. Tapering bow, decorated with 2 longitudinal grooves. Foot and pin missing.
Medieval bronze tanged buckle frame from location [1].
Part of possible Roman handle, bronze cast. Curving with attachment stud at one end next to transverse grooves. Cross-hatched decoration. Photograph.
Medieval bronze suspension ring.
Medieval bronze repousse rosette belt boss.
Medieval bronze rosette back-plate from handle.
Identifications by J. Davies (NCM) and S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 August 1993.
8 April 1997. Fieldwalking finds - finder's field 45 - Context 2, rest of field.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flints.
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval sherds.
See full list and plans in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 11 July 1997.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- KNIFE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: 1993. LET 10-12, Part of a possible Romano British handle.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
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