Record Details

NHER Number:31825
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period objects and coins

Summary

Metal detecting here during 1996-98 recovered a diverse range of metal objects and coins. Finds of note included an Early Neolithic laurel-leaf flint, a Middle Saxon sceat, a Late Saxon brooch and pendant and several post medieval jettons and tokens.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TF82NE
Parish:TATTERSETT, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February/March 1996. Metal detecting. [1]
Sceat, Middle Saxon brooch, Late Saxon brooch and pendant.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 9 April 1996.

1996. Metal detecting.
Early Neolithic laurel leaf.
Medieval coins.
Post medieval jetton and coin.
Middle Saxon brooch.
Late Saxon brooch and stirrup.
Medieval and undated metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 11 March 1997.

June/July 1997. Metal detecting. Area extended to north and east.
Middle Saxon, Late Saxon (S1), medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA) 29 August 1997.

1998. Metal detecting.
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval coins.
Post medieval jettons and tokens.
Iron Age (S2), Roman, ?Early Saxon, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval metal finds.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 8 January 1999.

A Late Saxon Viking brooch found at this site is amongst the objects included in the catalogue that accompanies thesis (S3).
P. Watkins (HES), 31 March 2020.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • WEIGHT (Undated)
  • LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BOW BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STUD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • COIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • BOW BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BOX (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • PENDANT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • AMPULLA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CURTAIN FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (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)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Holness, A. 1997. Drawing of a Late Saxon stirrup box mount.. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Illustration: Holness, A.. 1999. Drawing of an Iron Age la tene III brooch.. Card. 1:1.
<S3>Thesis: Kershaw, J. 2010. Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches, 850-1050. No 24 (Lozenge brooch - Birka type).

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