Record Details

NHER Number:34413
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal detecting and fieldwalking between 1995 and 2002 recovered a range of objects, including a prehistoric flint flake, a Roman brooch, a medieval mount and harness fitting and a post medieval buckle.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 68 41
Map Sheet:TF64SE
Parish:OLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1995/1996. Metal detecting.
Medieval mount perhaps for strap. Identified by JMM, 1996.
Details in file.
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1996.

1995 to 1996. Metal detecting.
Early post medieval buckle. Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 1996.
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1996.

1995/ 1996. Fieldwalking at [1].
Prehistoric worked flint. Identified by P.A. Robins (NCM), 29 April 1996.
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1996.

1995 to 1996. Metal detecting.
Rearhook brooch from about 40-60/65 AD. Identified by D. Mackreth (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1996.

1995/ 1996. Metal-detecting.
?Horse harness clasp.
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 April 1996.

Before 8 December 1998. Metal-detecting.
Found at [2]:
1 medieval copper alloy unidentified object with stylised animal head. See drawing (S1).
Identified by S. Ashley (HES) from drawing, 17 April 2019. No description located [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 17 April 2019.

2001-2. Metal detecting.
Medieval and undatable metal objects.
See list and map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 March 2003.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • RING (Unknown date)
  • STAPLE (Unknown date)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • KNIFE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Holness, A. 1998. Drawing of a medieval copper alloy unidentified object with stylised animal head. Paper. 1:1.

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