Record Details

NHER Number:36627
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metal finds

Summary

Metal detecting between 2001 and 2004 recovered part of a Bronze Age axehead or palstave, Roman coins and a brooch, a medieval coin and a medieval purse frame.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 52 00
Map Sheet:TG50SW
Parish:HOPTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

August 2001. Metal detecting.
Medieval coin.
See list in file.
S. Ashley (NLA), 3 October 2001.

September 2003. Metal detecting.
One Roman coin.
Roman brooch and medieval ?purse frame.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 November 2003.

August 2004. Metal detecting.
One Roman coin.
Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age flanged axe or palstave fragment (S1).
Undated weight.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 October 2004.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • WEIGHT (Unknown date)
  • FLANGED AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 64 AD? to 138 AD?)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 2004. Drawing of a Bronze Age axehead or palstave.. Film. 1:1.

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