Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37706 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Large number of Iron Age to post medieval objects |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 1995 on the spoil heaps from the Scole Bypass/A140 improvement work carried out to the north of village recovered a large number of Roman objects and some medieval and post-medieval items. This included 139 Roman coins, many Roman metal finds, and three Roman sherds. Finds from other periods included a number of medieval and post-medieval coins, token and jettons, an Iron Age brooch, an Early Saxon brooch, and a Late Saxon Viking equal-armed brooch, as well as numerous medieval and post-medieval metal objects. Roman, Early Saxon and medieval pottery and a Roman tile fragment were recovered in 1995.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 14 79 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM17NW |
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| Parish: | SCOLE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1995. Metal detecting.
On spoil of Scole By-pass/A140 improvement to north of village. [1]
139 Roman coins (on four sheets).
Medieval and post medieval coins, token and jettons (on three sheets).
Iron Age brooch.
Many Roman metal finds, and three Roman sherds.
Early Saxon brroch.
Late Saxon Viking equal-armed brooch (S1).
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
Undated (?post-medieval) unidentified copper alloy decorative object with embossed silver snake's-head terminal (S2).
See copies of manuscript finds lists and copies of polaroids on thirteen sheets in file.
The Late Saxon brooch and the unidentified ?post-medieval object were both subsequently donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2000.78.2.1-2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 January 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 July 2017.
1995. Casual finds along road line.
Romano-British sherds, with one Early Saxon and one medieval, Romano-British tile fragment.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 12 May 2011.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BELL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COSMETIC ARTICLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BELL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SCABBARD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CANDLE SNUFFER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | 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. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Holness, A. 1996. Drawing of a Late Saxon (Viking) copper alloy equal-armed brooch. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Jenkins, T. 1995. Drawing of an undated copper alloy object with snake's-head terminal. Paper. 1:1. |
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