Record Details

NHER Number:34189
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metal objects, coins and pottery sherds

Summary

Metal detecting here in 1998 and 2005-06 recovered a variety of metal objects, coins and pottery sherds. Finds included medieval strap ends, a post medieval buckle frame and a post medieval spur.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 92 13
Map Sheet:TF91SW
Parish:BRECKLAND
WENDLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

November/December 1998. Metal detecting in restricted area.
One Roman coin (see list in file).
Two medieval unglazed bowl rims (including one with wide flange and in light grey fabric).
One base sherd coarse sandy, reduced, probably Roman.
Height OD 60m.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 15 February 1999.

August-September 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval coin.
1 medieval buckle plate (gilt, see S1).
1 post-medieval rowel spur and 1 bar of lead casting waste.
Coin identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 October 2005.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 13 March 2014.

July-August 2006. Metal-detecting.
9 Late Saxon pottery sherds (Thetford-type).
22 medieval pottery sherds (unglazed).
1 post-medieval pottery sherd (GRE).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 17 September 2006.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 4 March 2014.

August-September 2006. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval coin and 2 composite four-part strap ends (inc 1 four-part).
1 post-medieval buckle frame.
Coin identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 16 October 2006.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 13 March 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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

  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CASTING WASTE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • ROWEL SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SHOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of a medieval gilt buckle plate.. Film. 2:1.

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