Record Details

NHER Number:9351
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman finds

Summary

Roman coins, Roman pottery and a Roman box mount or furniture fitting found during digging and metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 16 05
Map Sheet:TG10NE
Parish:HETHERSETT, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

July 1960. See Notes.
Fragments of at least 6 vessels of Roman grey ware.
Sherd of plain Samian and animal bones found in digging for electricity pylons 1.8m (6') deep. Probably 2nd century.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

17th and 31st August 1989. See Notes. Fieldwalking and metal detecting.
Roman grey ware sherds and a ?samian ware sherd with surfaces gone.
7 Roman coins 3rd/4th century, see list in file (coins mostly from near road).
Roman copper alloy furniture or box knob.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM) 4 September 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 10 NE 78.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 3.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Hethersett.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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