Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41714 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle Palaeolithic, Late Iron Age, Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 2005 and 2014 recovered a probable Middle Palaeolithic small flint biface, Late Iron Age, medieval and post-medieval coins and ?Roman and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a ?Roman unidentified copper alloy object; medieval and medieval/post-medieval buckles and a post-medieval harness mount, rowel spur and weight. A scatter of prehistoric burnt flints was also noted.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NW |
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| Parish: | GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February-March 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 Middle Palaeolithic cordate flint biface. See sketch (S1). Donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NHCM : 2005.350).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 April 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 April 2013.
October-November 2005. Metal-detecting.
Scattered pot boilers.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 December 2005.
September-October 2010. Metal-detecting.
Area re-examined but no artefacts found.
P. Watkins (HES), 12 April 2013.
September-October 2014. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Late Iron Age coin.
?Roman unidentified copper alloy object.
3 medieval coins and a buckle.
Medieval/post-medieval buckle.
1 post-medieval coin, a weight, harness mount and a rowel spur.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 December 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
- COIN (Late Iron Age - 10 AD to 42 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- COIN (13th Century - 1205 AD to 1216 AD)
- COIN (13th Century - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
- COIN (13th Century - 1280 AD to 1289 AD)
- BUCKLE (15th Century - 1425 AD to 1475 AD)
- BUCKLE (15th Century to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- ROWEL SPUR (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- WEIGHT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 2005. Sketch of a small Middle Palaeolithic cordiform flint biface from Great Ellingham. Paper. 1:1. |
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