Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34521 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman, Middle Saxon and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting between 1994 and 2015 recovered Roman pottery sherds; Roman and post-medieval coins and undatable, Roman, Middle Saxon and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include an undatable lead ?pendant; Roman brooches; a Middle Saxon pin; a medieval buckle and strap-end and a medieval/post-medieval book clasp or strap-end fragment, a knife end stop, rumbler or crotal bell and a thimble.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 95 39 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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| Parish: | WIGHTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1994-1996. Metal detecting in area centred [1 and 2].
Twenty Roman coins,
Roman brooch
Roman sherd
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 June 1999.
August-September 2003. Metal-detecting. Site extended to whole field including NHER 2012, no obvious concentrations.
42 Roman coins, 2 pottery sherds (central Galuish Samian, inc 1 with image of fallen Gladiator) and 1 brooch (trumpet derivative).
1 ?Middle Saxon pin.
1 ?medieval ?strap end.
2 medieval coins and 1 tinned buckle frame fragment.
1 medieval/post-medieval ?book-clasp/?strap-end fragment, 1 knife end stop, 1 rumbler/crotal bell and 1 thimble.
1 undatable lead ?pendant.
Pottery identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), coins by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 19 October 2003.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 13 March 2014.
September-October 2015. Metal-detecting. [3].
3 Roman coins.
1 post-medieval coin and 1 jetton.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 December 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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
- PENDANT (Unknown date)
- BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 139 AD to 139 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 161 AD to 180 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 310 AD to 313 AD)
- PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- KNIFE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1671 AD to 1671 AD)
- JETTON (17th Century - 1671 AD to 1671 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
Related records - none
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