Record Details

NHER Number:31081
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metal finds, Rabbit Burrows/Footpath, Night Pasture/Godwins

Summary

Metal detecting in 1994 recovered Roman coins and brooches, a Late Saxon brooch and two medieval coins.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 93 10
Map Sheet:TF91SW
Parish:SCARNING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

October/November 1994. Metal detecting. Finds from adjacent corners of four fields on either side of minor public road.
Three Roman coins.
Two medieval coins.
See lists in file.
Two Roman brooches: plate type, umbonate, sunburst pattern of two concentric circles of triangular enamelled cells. Blue enamel in inner cells. Chain loop at head, with three peripheral rounded lugs.
2nd century; upper section of Dolphin type bow, very worn, 1st century.
Late Saxon Borre-style disc brooch, broken catch plate on reverse. Polaroid (S1) NCM.
Identified by J.Davies and S.Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 December 1994.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman to Medieval - 43 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

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