Record Details

NHER Number:10013
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic worked flints and medieval brooch

Summary

A small copper alloy medieval brooch was found here. Later two Neolithic flint scrapers and a small unfinished Neolithic arrowhead were recovered from an area immediately to the south of the pond.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 1320 9341
Map Sheet:TM19SW
Parish:BUNWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1971. Surface find in ploughed field (on old hedge line).
Small bronze brooch ring inlaid with blue glass (British Museum Research Laboratory 1971). Pin missing when seen at NCM but present when found.
Seen by [1] British Museum (Medieval and Late Antiquity) suggests 14th century.
T. Clough (NCM).

Pre 1985. Surface finds immediately south of pond.
Two well formed flint scrapers.
Small worked flake - unfinished arrowhead?
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 4 July 1986.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Bunwell.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Day, P. G. 1985. The Archaeology of Bunwell. p 149; No 8.

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