Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10762 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1976 recovered Roman pottery sherds. Metal-detecting between 2017 and 2018 recovered a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flakes and a scraper; Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds; Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval jettons, a post-medieval token, and Late Iron Age/Roman, and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Late Iron Age/Roman harness fitting; a Late Saxon/medieval Anglo-Scandinavian bird brooch; a Late Saxon/post-medieval spindle whorl; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval spur buckle, brooch, purse, lead ampulla, and a coin weight; a medieval/post-medieval knife handle, book fitting, weight and a dress hook; and post-medieval cloth seals.
Images
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 88 29 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF82NE |
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| Parish: | DUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 1976.
Scatter of Roman pottery found to west of road
P. Wade-Martins (NAU).
Sketch plan in file.
See (S1).
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 23 July 1990.
February-March 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to northern half of field. [1].
1 Neolithic-Bronze Age flake.
2 Roman coins and 1 pottery sherd.
2 Middle Saxon Ipswich ware pottery sherds.
17 Late Saxon Thetford ware type pottery sherds.
1 medieval coin, 9 pottery sherds, strap fittings, strap-ends, buckles, a spur buckle, brooch, purse bar and a coin weight.
1 medieval/post-medieval jetton, a knife handle and a dress hook.
5 post-medieval coins, 1 token, 1 pottery sherd and a buckle frame.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 15 March 2016. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 3 April 2017.
March-June 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flakes.
Late Iron Age/Roman harness fitting.
2 Roman coins.
4 Late Saxon/medieval pottery sherds.
Late Saxon to post-medieval spindle whorl.
Late Saxon/medieval Anglo-Scandinavian bird brooch (S2).
1 medieval coin, 6 pottery sherds, buckles, an ampulla, and an openwork strap-end with ring and dot decoration (S3).
Medieval/post-medieval book fitting.
Post-medieval cloth seals.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 20 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 4 October 2017, 1 March 2018.
February-March 2018. Metal-detecting. [3].
Neolithic/Bronze Age scraper.
1 post-medieval jetton.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 May 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4001 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- HARNESS FITTING (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 100 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 274 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 268 AD to 270 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 269 AD to 271 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 273 AD to 274 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 720 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1100 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1100 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to 16th Century - 1000 AD to 1600 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1500 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1150 AD to 1400 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1150 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1500 AD)
- CLASP (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1200 AD to 1600 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1450 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1270 AD to 1450 AD)
- COIN (Medieval to 16th Century - 1272 AD to 1509 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1300 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1330 AD to 1450 AD)
- AMPULLA (Medieval to 16th Century - 1350 AD to 1530 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1400 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (Medieval - 1421 AD to 1471 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1550 AD)
- KNIFE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1530 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1550 AD to 1584 AD)
- POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1565 AD to 1565 AD)
- BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1575 AD to 1700 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1575 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1578 AD to 1579 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1630 AD to 1631 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1650 AD to 1670 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 82 NE 16. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gibbons J.. 2017. Drawing of a Late Saxon copper alloy bird brooch. Film. 2:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a medieval strap end. Film. 2:1. |
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