Record Details

NHER Number:34366
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal detecting in 1999 and 2003 recovered ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic, Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints; Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, and medieval pottery sherds; Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins; post-medieval jettons and tokens and Late Iron Age to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Late Iron Age/Roman brooch; a Roman vessel handle escutcheon, copper alloy nail and brooch; a ?Roman bead; Middle Saxon pins; a Late Saxon brooch and finger ring; medieval buckles, ?horse-harness pendant, copper alloy cooking vessel fragment and lead pot mend; a medieval/post-medieval purse bar/chafing dish handle and knife end stop and a post-medieval coin weight, small key, bone domino piece, and lead weights.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 07 29
Map Sheet:TG02NE
Parish:THURNING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February-March 1999. Metal-detecting.
Context 1 ([1]):
Flint flake.
Iron Age/Roman, Roman and Late Saxon finds.
See lists in file.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 15 April 1999.

March-April 1999. Metal-detecting. Site extended - Context 2.
Roman and medieval coins
Roman/Middle Saxon, medieval/Post medieval and undated metal finds.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 May 1999.

April-May 1999. Metal-detecting.
Flint flakes.
One Roman and one medieval coin.
Medieval metal finds
Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval sherds including some sherds from NHER 13079 (not differentiated)
See lists in file.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 June 1999.

February-March 1999.
Late Saxon brooch found. May possibly be Middle Saxon, early 8th century.
See letter in file.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 September 1999.

January-February 2003. Metal-detecting.
Neolithic worked flints.
One Roman and one Late Saxon sherd.
Medieval coin.
Roman nail.
Medieval pot mend.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 March 2003.

February-March 2003. Metal-detecting.
Prehistoric flint flake.
Two Roman and one medieval coin.
Roman, ?Middle Saxon and Late Saxon sherds.
Medieval, post medieval and undatable metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 April 2003.

March-April 2003. Metal-detecting.
1 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blade core.
2 undatable prehistoric flint flakes and 1 side scraper.
4 Roman coins.
1 medieval gilt unidentified object.
1 post-medieval lead ?token and 1 lead unidentified object.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM), coins by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 21 May 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 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 (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • RING (Unknown date)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BOW BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BEAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • PLATE BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CHAFING DISH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CHAFING DISH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • DOMINO (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KNIFE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PURSE (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

---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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