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Record Details

NHER Number:	11691
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal-detecting in advance of the Norwich Southern Bypass and in 2018 recovered prehistoric burnt and worked flints and a pot boiler, a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age scraper; Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds, a medieval roof tile; aswell as undated, Bronze Age, Roman, and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include undated ring; a Bronze Age palstave; Roman brooches, a ferrule and finger ring; a Late Saxon brooch; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval spur fragment, and a vessel fragment; a medieval/post-medieval box fitting; and post-medieval weights, a cloth seal,. Finger ring, furniture fitting, a piece of witing equipment and a harness mount. part of a Middle Bronze Age palstave, a fragment of a Roman enamelled brooch, medieval roof tile and medieval and post medieval metal finds. Pieces of Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery were also recorded. See NHER 62988 for cropmarks previously recorded here.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TG 21 03
Map Sheet:	TG20SW
Parish:	KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
	SWARDESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

CROPMARKS OF AN UNDATED RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED UNDER THIS NUMBER ARE NOW RECORDED UNDER NHER 62988.

Autumn 1988. Fieldwalking across site on bypass line. Context 2. [1].
Prehistoric worked flints. Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds. Medieval roof tile.
See full list in (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 30 July 1990.

Context 3. South part of field overlapping Context 1.
Large spoil heap from Southern Bypass had been in northeast corner of field but was now spread over the field so that it is probable that the finds have come from elsewhere.

August and October 1991. Metal detecting finds. [2]. [3].
Middle Bronze Age palstave blade (worn). See (S2).
Roman enamelled brooch fragment, square with central lozenge-shaped sunken field containing yellow enamel, and four around with white enamel.
Medieval bronze vessel rim fragment.
Medieval bronze half-barrel-shaped belt fitting decorated with niello- inlaid cross hatching.
Medieval asymetric buckle with leaf-shaped lobe projecting and engraved diagonal lines on frame.
Late medieval bronze spur rowel.
15th/16th century bronze box mount with pierced pointed lobe at one end, broken at two rivet holes.
17th century bronze S-shaped belt-fitting with swan head terminal.
16th century back plate for drawer handle.
18th century bronze signet ring with coat-of-arms and screw thread on shank at base, from tobacco tamper (cork screw and tube type).
18th century bronze dividers with moulded knob and decorated at top of arms.
Bronze object.
See photographs in file for site NHER 28718.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) 5 September 1991.
W. Milligan (NCM) 14 October 1991.

1991-92. Watching brief on line of Norwich Southern Bypass. Found with metal detector. Site 51 within Context 2.
14th century seal.
See full details and maps in files under NHER 29040.
E. Rose (NLA), July 1992.

November 2001.
Potboilers and crazed flints reported somewhere in this area.
Information from [1] via H. Paterson (A&E).
D. Gurney (NLA), 21 January 2002.

Before 11 October 2006. Metal detecting. Site extended. [4].
Prehistoric worked flints.
Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds.
Roman, medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 March 2007.

Before 07 September 2011. Metal-detecting.
Undatable copper alloy ring.
See details in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 30 May 2012.

June 2018. Metal-detecting. [5].
Medieval/post-medieval lead weight.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 March 2019.

July 2018. Metal-detecting. [6].
Roman plate brooch.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 July 2020.

13 March 2020. Metal-detecting Rally. [7].
INDMT15102020HG - PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 16 October 2020.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 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

RING (Unknown date)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FERRULE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
PLATE BROOCH (Roman - 200 AD to 350 AD)
BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
BOX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SPUR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
WEIGHT (Medieval to 18th Century - 1066 AD to 1800 AD)
WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
BOX (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FINGER RING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
WRITING AND DRAWING EQUIPMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Archive: NAU. 1985 to 1989. Norwich Southern Bypass Fieldwork Folder..
<S2>	Illustration: Davies, J. A.. 1991. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age palstave blade. Find Illustration. Paper. 1:1.