Record Details

NHER Number:24015
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds scatter

Summary

A Roman brooch, cosmetic palette, coins and pottery, and medieval and post medieval coins, buckles and pottery, found by metal detecting,

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 99 04
Map Sheet:TF90SE
Parish:CRANWORTH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1987.
Opposite building with well as marked on (S1).
Found with metal detecting.
14th century bronze buckle or brooch pin.
Identified S. Margeson (NCM)
W. Milligan (NCM) 28 August 1987.

April 1988. Metal detecting finds.
Roman coin of Magnentius or Decentius, SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAE 350-1.
Roman three sided cosmetic palette, no parallel known.
Greyware rim, late 1st to early 2nd century Gallo-Belgic copy.
Penny, Edward ? CIVITAS LONDON.
Late medieval/Trans base sherd with lead inside.
Identified A. Gregory (NAU) and S. Margeson (NCM)
W. Milligan 12 April 1988.

1988. Metal detecting finds.
1st century Roman bow brooch catchplate.
2 Roman greyware sherds.
17th century boss or button.
16th/17th century copper alloy buckle.
18th century shoe buckle fragment.
18th century Druid head token issued by Parys mine company, Anglesey.
Identified A. Gregory (NAU) and S. Margeson (NCM)
W. Milligan (NCM) 8 July 1988.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PALETTE (COSMETIC) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (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.
<S1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. First edition six inch map.

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