Record Details

NHER Number:50247
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon finds

Summary

Metal detecting in this area during 2007 recovered Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon finds. These included Iron Age horse harness furniture and a late 4th/early 5th century military buckle.

Images - none

Location

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

Full description

March-April 2007. Metal-detecting.
1 Iron Age pendant mount/'dangler' (see S1) and 1 harness mount (see S2).
13 Roman coins, 1 ?linch-pin terminal, 1 finger ring fragment (tinned/silvered) and 1 furniture escutcheon plate.
1 ?Roman lead figurine fragment (lion).
1 Roman/Early Saxon military buckle plate fragment.
1 undated wire scrap from unidentified object.
Coins identifed by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See list and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 13 May 2007.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 12 May 2014.

June - July 2008. metal-detecting.
2 Roman coins and 1 cosmetic mortar (Jackson Type E).
Coins identifed by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 August 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 12 May 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)

Associated Finds

  • HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • LINCH PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of an Iron Age pendent mount or 'dangler'.. Film. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of a Iron Age harness mount.. Film. 2:1.

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