Record Details
NHER Number: | 31774 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Multi-period metal finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1996 and 1997 recovered a Late Bronze Age copper alloy axehead, a possible Iron Age toggle, Roman coins and a medieval horse harness pendant and seal matrix.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 05 20 |
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Map Sheet: | TG02SE |
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Parish: | SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1996. Metal detecting by [1].
Horse harness pendant with broken loop (S1).
Blazoned by S. Ashley (NAU) in file.
Quaterly 1 and ?4 a lion rampant or/argent.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 February 1996.
Found at same time as harness pendant by [2].
Very worn bronze acorn terminal with stub of round-sectioned rod or shank. Medieval but from what type of object is unknown.
Dumb-bell shaped bronze object, rounded section, smoothly waisted. Length 22mm, diameter maximum 10mm, minimum 6mm. Possibly an Iron Age toggle. Suggested by [1] as weight from Roman scourge.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 February 1996.
January 1997. Metal detecting.
Late Bronze Age axe.
Roman coins.
Medieval ? Seal matrix.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 February 1997.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- TOGGLE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Illustration: Ashley, S.. 1996. Drawing of a medieval horse harness pendant.. Film. 2:1. |
<S2> | Illustration: Ashley, S.. 1997. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead.. Film. 1:1. |
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