Record Details

NHER Number:4777
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Northwold Hoard A

Summary

Peat fen ploughing in 1959 uncovered three large Roman pewter plates. These finds are known as Northwold Hoard A.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7170 9723
Map Sheet:TL79NW
Parish:NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1959. About 610m (2000ft) northwest of White House.
Peat fen ploughing revealed a group of three large pewter plates (Hoard A).
Present whereabouts of plates unknown.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • HOARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PLATE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 79 NW 4 [2].
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 4.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Northwold.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1960. [unknown]. Journal of Roman Studies. Vol L, p 228. p 228.
<S2>Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
<S3>Monograph: 1987. East Anglian Archaeology. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 31, p 152. p 152.

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