Record Details

NHER Number:31339
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age and medieval metal finds

Summary

Metal detecting in 1993 and 1994 recovered a Bronze Age awl and a medieval key.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 05 81
Map Sheet:TM08SE
Parish:SOUTH LOPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1993.Metal detecting.
Medieval key, circular handle with knob at top. Facetted shaft with herring-bone decoration and four transverse rings, below which the last third of the shaft is circular in section and plain. Broken ward at right-angles to handle.
Polaroid (S1) in file.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), April 1994.
W. Milligan (NCM), 3 February 1994.

1994. Metal detecting.
Bronze awl, (S2).
Polaroid, (S1).
W. Milligan (NCM), 3 February 1994.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (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.
<S2>Illustration: Birdsall, J.. 1994. Drawing of a Bronze Age awl. Paper. 1:1.

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