Record Details

NHER Number:40785
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi period metal object scatter

Summary

Metal detecting from June to November 2004 recovered a selection of metal objects dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval period. Finds of note included an Iron Age terret ring of the Snettisham type and a Middle Saxon stylus that was reused as a pin.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 40 99
Map Sheet:TM49NW
Parish:NORTON SUBCOURSE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

June/July 2004. Metal detecting.
Iron Age terret ring, (S1).
See description in file.
E. Darch (NLA) 6 August 2004.

September/October 2004. Metal detecting.
Two medieval and one post medieval coins.
Middle Saxon stylus, perhaps reused as pin, (S2).
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 29 November 2004.

November 2004. Metal detecting.
Middle Saxon pin at [1].
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 December 2004.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to 19th Century - 800 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • STYLUS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2004. Drawing of an Iron Age terret.. Film. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Unknown. 2004. Drawing of a Middle Saxon stylus perhaps reused as a pin.. Paper. 1:1.

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