Record Details
| NHER Number: | 39658 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age, Roman and Late Saxon to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 2003 and 2014 recovered Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins as well as Roman and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a remarkable Roman miniature palstave and a copper alloy stud; a Late Saxon stirrup strap mount; an unusual Late Saxon/medieval strap-end; medieval dress accessories, a horse harness mount and a fragment of chafing dish; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment and a cannon (suspension loop) from a bell and a post-medieval weight, clapper bell fragment and harness mount.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60NE |
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| Parish: | SHOULDHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1998. Metal-detecting.
Found at [1]:
1 ?probe.
No other details recorded [2].
Found at [3]:
1 Roman enamelled plate brooch.
See polaroid (S1) [4].
P. Watkins (HES), 8 August 2016 and 20 September 2018.
Before 11 February 2003. Metal detecting.
1 Iron Age coin.
3 Roman coins.
1 remarkable ?Roman miniature palstave (S2).
1 Late Saxon stirrup strap-mount.
5 medieval coins, 1 unusual 11th- or 12th-century strap end (S3), 3 strap ends (14th-century) and 1 buckle.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 31 July 2003.
March-April 2014. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the western field boundary. [5].
2 Roman coins and a copper alloy stud.
1 medieval coin, buckles, a horse harness mount, strap-end, belt mount and a fragment of chafing dish.
Medieval/post-medieval dress hooks, a copper alloy vessel fragment, cannon (suspension loop) from a bell and unidentified object, possibly a mount.
2 post-medieval coins, a weight, harness mount and clapper bell fragment.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 2 June 2014.
September 2019. Metal-detecting. [6].
KLMD092019 - PAS details to follow.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
E. McDonald (HES), 10 October 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 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
- PROBE? (Unknown date)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MINIATURE OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STUD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 351 AD to 353 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- STRAP END (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 12th Century - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval to 12th Century - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
- COIN (12th Century - 1180 AD to 1185 AD)
- BUCKLE (12th Century to 13th Century - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
- STRAP END (12th Century to 15th Century - 1200 AD to 1500 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (13th Century to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- VESSEL (13th Century to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (14th Century to 15th Century - 1400 AD to 1500 AD)
- VESSEL (15th Century to 16th Century - 1475 AD to 1525 AD)
- BELL (15th Century to 18th Century - 1500 AD to 1800 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (15th Century to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (15th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1700 AD)
- BELL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1540 AD to 1800 AD)
- WEIGHT (16th Century to 18th Century - 1590 AD to 1714 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1595 AD to 1595 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1602 AD to 1602 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Article in Monograph: Ashley, S. 2016. Anglo-Norman elite objects from castle and countryside. Castles and the Anglo-Norman World. Proceedings of a Conference held at Norwich Castle in 2012. Davies, J. et al (eds). pp 281-298. Fig 18.8 No 53. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. 10218. |
| <S2> | Illustration: White, S. 2003. Drawing of a ?Roman copper alloy miniature axehead in form of Middle Bronze Age palstave. Film. 2:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: White, S. 2003. Drawing of an unusual early medieval copper alloy strap end. Film. 2:1. |
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