Record Details

NHER Number:31939
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman coin and two medieval seal matrices.

Summary

Metal detecting in 1996 recovered a Roman coin and a medieval copper alloy seal matrix inscribed: +SIGILL RICARDI COWEL. In 2007 a lead seal matrix inscribed + S' ROBERtI d' was recovered.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 27 84
Map Sheet:TM28SE
Parish:WORTWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

June 1996. Metal detector find. [1]
One Roman coin.
See form in secondary file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 21 June 1996.

November 1996. Metal detector find. [1]
Medieval bronze seal matrix +SIGILL RICARDI COWEL.
See description in secondary file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 12 December 1996.

15 December 2007. Metal detecting, AHS Club Day Out, only one find.
Medieval lead seal matrix + S' ROBERtI d'. (S1).
See description in file
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 February 2008.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: JHT 3, 4, Medieval seal matrix..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Article in Serial: Geake, H., Rogerson, A. and Ashley, S. 1999. Medieval Seal Matrices from Norfolk, 1996-1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 353-358. no 45, p 355.

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