Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37443 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman brooch |
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Summary
A Roman crossbow brooch found during metal detecting.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 06 97 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NE |
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| Parish: | MORLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August/September 2002. Metal detecting.
Roman copper alloy fragemnet of crossbow brooch, wings with deep V-shaped grooves, three conical knobs, central one with knop, transverse iron bar, pin-notch woth iron staining, pin missing, plain bow broken, closest to (S1)'s Type 3/4, from Richborough no. 7351707.
4th century.
Identified by S.J. Ashley (NLA).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 15 October 2002.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Swift, E.. 2000. Regionality in dress accessories in the late Roman West.. Monographies Instrumentum 11. Fig 93. |
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