Record Details
| NHER Number: | 39970 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 2003 recovered prehistoric worked flints and many pot boilers. Also found were fragments of Iron Age, Middle and Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery and medieval tile and brick. Metal-detecting in 2017 recovered a post-medieval coin and a medieval buckle.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 34689 98621 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NW |
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| Parish: | SISLAND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
2003. Fieldwalking in 10 by 10m squares, field A.
?Iron Age, ?Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds. Concentration of medieval and early post medieval sherds at north end.
Medieval roof tile and brick.
?Mesolithic, Early Neolithic, Late Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints.
Many pot boilers, especially in south.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 December 2003.
June 2017. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval buckle, and a harness pendant with a counter-relief design of a enthroned king with sceptre (S1). Traces of dark blue enamle and gilding remain on the pendant.
Post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 March 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- CORE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1150 AD to 1400 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1554 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a medieval harness pendant. Film. 2:1. |
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