Record Details

NHER Number:41866
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period coins, medieval mount and pilgrim souvenir

Summary

Metal detecting from 2005-2007 recovered a small number of multi-period coins and a fragment of a Roman brooch as well as two interesting medieval objects: a possible mount depicting a mythical beast, and a cast lead pilgrim souvenir head of Christ.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 19 89
Map Sheet:TM18NE
Parish:PULHAM MARKET, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

May - June 2005. Metal detecting.
One Roman, one medieval and two post medieval coins.
Two interesting medieval objects: a ?mount depicting a mythical beast (S1) and a cast lead pilgrim souvenir head of Christ.
See lists in secondary file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 July 2005.

August - September 2006. Metal detecting.
Fragment of Roman Trumpet brooch.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 October 2006.

August - September 2007. Metal detecting.
1 medieval and 1 post medieval coin.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 October 2007.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FIGURINE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of a Medieval copper alloy unidentified object possibly a mount.. Film. 2:1.

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