Record Details

NHER Number:50246
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Bronze Age and Roman finds

Summary

Metal detecting in this area during 2007-2008 recovered a Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment and a Roman brooch, Jupiter figurine and cosmetic mortar.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 10 26
Map Sheet:TG12NW
Parish:SALLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

March - April 2007. Metal-detecting.
1 Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment (S1).
1 Roman brooch (Headstud type).
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See list and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 May 2007.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 12 May 2014.

February - March 2008. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman figurine (of nude Jupiter, wearing leaf crown) and 1 cosmetic mortar centre-loop.
Mentioned in article in monograph (S2).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 April 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 12 May 2014.

June - July 2008. Metal-detecting.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA). See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 August 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 12 May 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment.. Film. 1:1.
<S2>Article in Monograph: Marsden, A. 2014. Satyrs, leopards, riders and ravens. Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic objects from Roman Norfolk: A safari through the county's religious landscape. Landscape and Artefacts: Studies in East Anglian Archaeology Presented to Andrew Rogerson. Ashley, S. and Marsden, A. pp 45-72. p 51.

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