Record Details

NHER Number:31173
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal detecting since 1995 has recovered a wide range of objects, including prehistoric worked flints, a Bronze Age copper alloy axehead, an Iron Age brooch, Roman coins, Roman and Saxon brooches, Iron Age, Saxon and medieval pottery fragments and medieval coins.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 74 12
Map Sheet:TF71SW
Parish:NARBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1995.
Neolithic/prehistoric flints.
Roman and medieval coins.
Post medieval token.
Bronze Age socketed axe, (S1).
Roman metalwork.
Early Saxon brooches.
Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval metalwork.
Iron Age, Late Saxon, medieval pot sherds.
Medieval roof tile.
See details in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA) 9 May 1995.

October 2000. Metal detecting.
Medieval mount, ?harness fitting, (S2).
See description and blazon in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 30 November 2000.

November 2001. Metal detecting.
Northern end of field.
Middle Bronze Age (S3), Middle/ Late Bronze Age (S4), Iron Age (S5), Roman, medieval and post medieval metal finds.
Fragment of ?Roman tile.
Five Roman coins.
Two medieval coins.
Two post medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 January 2002.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
  • WEIGHT (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • PIN (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SPEAR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BALANCE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BELL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PADLOCK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STUD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KNIFE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • Higher Level Stewardship

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. 2001. Finds Photograph. Polaroid.
---Photograph: 1995. LCY 8-9, Medieval stud..
---Photograph: 1995. LCY 14-15, Early Saxon brooch fragment..
---Photograph: 1995. LCZ 16-18, Late Saxon disc brooch..
---Photograph: 1995. LDG 8-9, Early Saxon brooch foot..
---Photograph: 1995. LDG 10-11, Early Saxon square headed brooch..
---Photograph: 1995. LDG 12-13, Early Saxon brooch head plate..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 1995. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axe fragment.. Film. 1:1.
<S2>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 2000. Drawing of a medieval mount.. Film. 2:1.
<S3>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 2001. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age quoit-headed pin fragment.. Film. 1:1.
<S4>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 2001. Drawing of a Middle/Late Bronze Age spearhead.. Film. 1:1.
<S5>Illustration: White, S.. 2002. Drawing of an Iron Age copper alloy brooch.. Film. 2:1.

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