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NHER Number:34141
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Upper Palaeolithic, Iron Age to post-medieval finds

Summary

Metal-detecting between 1997 and 2018 recovered Upper Palaeolithic scrapers; Roman, Middle Saxon, medieval and post-medieval coins, post-medieval jettons and Iron Age to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include an Iron Age fitting from a box or dagger sheath; a Late Iron Age/Roman brooch; Roman hair pins, brooches and finger-rings; Early Saxon brooches and a fragment of a mount from a hanging bowl; Middle Saxon pins, strap-end and pair of tweezers; Middle/Late Saxon hooked tags and a strap-end; a Middle Saxon/medieval hooked tag; a Late Saxon brooch, buckle and strap-end; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; medieval thimbles, keys, brooches, bell, apothecaries' weight, hooked vessel mount, balance and seal matrix; a medieval/post-medieval unidentified copper alloy object and a whittle-tang knife shoulder bolster and post-medieval cloth seals, a thimble, and book fitting.

Images

  • Late Saxon buckle from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Medieval vesssel from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Early Saxon brooch from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Medieval unidentified object from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Romano-British brooch from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Medieval buckle from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Medieval buckle from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council
  • Post-medieval cloth seal from NHER 34141 © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TF71SE
Parish:NARBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
NARFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1997 to 1998. Metal detecting. [1]
Roman, medieval and post medieval coins.
See lists in file.
Roman, Early Saxon/Middle Saxon/Late Saxon dress hook, Late Saxon strap fitting.
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 December 1998.

September 2000. Metal detecting.
1 medieval coin.
Iron Age, Early Saxon, Middle Saxon, medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 March 2001.

October - November 2001. Metal detecting.
2 Sceatta.
Early Saxon brooch knob.
Post medieval buckle.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 January 2001.

August - September 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman coin.
1 post-medieval harness mount (umbonate) and 1 lead ?pendant.
Coin identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 October 2005.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 13 March 2014.

September-October 2006. Metal-Detecting. Site Extended
1 Roman copper alloy finger ring.
1 Early-Middle Saxon hanging bowl mount fragment (7th century).
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 23 November 2006.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 13 March 2014.

October - November 2006. Metal detecting, site extended.
Roman finger ring.
Fragment of Early Saxon mount from hanging bowl (S1).
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 November 2006.

Before 25 January 2008. Metal detecting.
Nine Roman, one medieval and one post medieval coin, Romano-British, medieval post medieval metal objects, three post medieval jettons.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 March 2008.

March - April 2008. Metal detecting.
2 medieval and 1 post medieval coin.
Middle Saxon (S2), medieval and medieval/post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 May 2008.

Before 14 February 2011. Metal-detecting.
14 Roman, one Middle Saxon, six medieval and one post-medieval coin, Middle Saxon, Middle/Late Saxon and medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 29 June 2012.

March-April 2015. Metal-detecting. [2].
Late Iron Age/Roman brooch.
18 Roman coins, hair pins and a brooch.
Early Saxon brooch.
Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag.
Middle Saxon/medieval hooked tag.
Late Saxon buckle.
5 medieval coins, mounts, thimbles, strap-ends, folding clasps, buckles, a hooked vessel mount and strap plate.
Medieval/post-medieval buckles, unidentified objects and a whittle-tang knife shoulder bolster.
4 post-medieval coins, 1 jetton, a cloth seal and button.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 May 2015.

April-June 2018. Metal-detecting. [3].
3 Upper Palaeolithic scrapers.
10 Roman coins, a finger ring, and Headstud, Aesca or Wing-and-fanbow, Headstud, and continental disc brooches.
Middle Saxon pin.
6 medieval coins, casket keys, a buckle, bar mount, belt mount, rumbler bell, and annular brooch.
3 post-medieval coins and a cloth seal.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 July 2018. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 December 2018.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Medieval - 651 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 12000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 12000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 12000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCABBARD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 25 AD to 60 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PENANNULAR BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 69 AD to 79 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 69 AD to 81 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 75 AD to 200 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 98 AD to 150 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 100 AD to 200 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 100 AD to 200 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
  • HAIR PIN (Roman - 175 AD to 225 AD)
  • HAIR PIN (Roman - 175 AD to 225 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 221 AD to 221 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 243 AD to 244 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 261 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 268 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 268 AD to 270 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 269 AD to 271 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 270 AD to 270 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 271 AD to 274 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 273 AD to 275 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 320 AD to 320 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 327 AD to 328 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 330 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 341 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 341 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 341 AD to 348 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 341 AD to 348 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 341 AD to 348 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 351 AD to 353 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 355 AD to 361 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 375 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • DRESS HOOK (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • HANGING BOWL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • HANGING BOWL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 450 AD to 475 AD)
  • COIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • DRESS HOOK (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • STRAP END (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • STRAP END (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Middle Saxon to Medieval - 700 AD to 1100 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Middle Saxon to Medieval - 700 AD to 1100 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 700 AD to 900 AD)
  • DRESS HOOK (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Late Saxon - 900 AD to 1000 AD)
  • ANNULAR BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • APOTHECARY WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BALANCE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1300 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1154 AD to 1180 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1158 AD to 1180 AD)
  • BELL (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval to 18th Century - 1200 AD to 1800 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1204 AD to 1216 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1270 AD to 1450 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1314 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1450 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1344 AD to 1351 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
  • CLASP (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1355 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1377 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1356 AD to 1361 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1399 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
  • KNIFE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • DRESS HOOK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PENDANT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CLOTH SEAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
  • CLOTH SEAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1564 AD to 1564 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1575 AD to 1575 AD)
  • BUTTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1603 AD to 1624 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1614 AD to 1636 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1634 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1634 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1634 AD)
  • JETTON (17th Century - 1660 AD to 1685 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Unpublished Document: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 2000. Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999. p 91; No 234.
---Photograph: 2001. KSW 19, Early Saxon cruciform foot..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2006. Drawing of an Early/ Middle Saxon hanging bowl mount fragment.. Film. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2008. Drawing of a Middle Saxon gilt pin fragment. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

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