Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33865 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Saxon key |
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Summary
A Late Saxon key with open-work decoration found during metal detecting.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 06 99 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NE |
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| Parish: | MORLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1998. Metal detecting find.
Copper alloy key. D-shaped bow with stem issuing from the straight edge. Along either side are 2 pierced lobes and in the centre of curved edge are remains of a suspension loop. Within the D-shape is openwork decoration of 5 circles. The stem is oval in section and pierced at the tip. The bit has 2 shallow cuts on its forward edge and a central perforation.
Identified by H. Geake (A&E).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 2 October 1998.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- KEY (LOCKING) (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
Related records - none
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