Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41867 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Iron Age to Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 2005 and 2014 recovered Roman and medieval coins as well as Middle to Late Bronze Age, Late Iron Age to Roman and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Middle/Late Bronze Age chisel; a Late Bronze Age spear fragment; Late Iron Age to Roman brooches; a medieval ampulla, harness mount and harness pendant; a medieval/post-medieval button and book clasp and a post-medieval buckle, harness mount and crotal bell.
The Roman coins at this site may be part of a Roman coin hoard, see NHER 41868.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08SE |
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| Parish: | BRESSINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 13 June 2005. Metal detecting.
Roman coins and possible Coin hoard, muddled with NHER 41868.
1 medieval coin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 July 2005.
August-September 2014. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours, Field JO9. Site extended to whole field. [1].
Middle/Late Bronze Age copper alloy tanged chisel (S1).
Late Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead fragment (S2).
Late Iron Age/Roman brooch.
Roman brooches.
Medieval ampulla, harness mount and harness pendant.
Medieval/post-medieval button and book clasp.
Post-medieval buckle, harness mount and crotal bell.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 10 February 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 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
- CHISEL (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
- SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 20 AD to 70 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 80 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN HOARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 75 AD to 175 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- AMPULLA (Medieval to 16th Century - 1350 AD to 1530 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- BUTTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- CROTAL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1680 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2015. Drawing of incomplete Middle Bronze to Late Bronze Age copper alloy tanged chisel. Film. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2015. Drawing of fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead. Film. 1:1. |
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