Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31088 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1994 recovered a miniature Iron Age copper alloy head and Roman, medieval and post medieval coins. Also found were a medieval horse harness pendant, a lead pilgrim bottle, a seal matrix, buckles and strap end plates and post medieval tokens, jettons, a book clasp and a coin weight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 12 42 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SW |
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| Parish: | WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1994. Metal detecting.
Field to south and part of field north of road.
Miniature Iron Age head, (S1), grooved lines for hair, swept back in appearance. Simplified face, with dots for eyes. Bronze with iron corrosion below, from attachment to a handle? Drawn (S1).
For a similar miniature head, see Gillingham NHER 25431 and (S2).
Three Roman coins, six medieval, two post medieval coins and five post medieval tokens, two post medieval jettons.
See lists in file.
Medieval shield-shaped harness pendant (bar with three roundels on a red ground).
Medieval lead pilgrims ampulla, 'star' on one face within hatched border and shell on other.
Medieval 13th century bronze pointed oval seal matrix with ?arrow and roundel in centre. S'IOH - RIC.
Medieval harness pendant attachment bar; central H-shaped lug, and pierced lobe terminal.
Medieval buckle, rectangular with sheet cylinder roller on pin rest and narrow plate with incurved end.
Medieval strap end plate, 1 rivet at opne end, and broken tiny trefoil terminal.
Medieval strap end plate fragment with 4 longitudinal bands containing zig-zag ornament, incurved end and broken off ?trefoil terminal.
14th century strap end buckle and pin.
13th century buckle with moulded projecting lobes and ribbed pin rest; sheet plate.
Early post medieval book clasp with ring-and-dot, linear ornament and rocker arm decoration near hook.
Square James I coin weight for a unite 1603 to 25.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 December 1994.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FIGURINE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- AMPULLA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Davies, J.A.. 1994. Drawing of a miniature Iron Age copper alloy head.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 100; Fig 5. |
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