Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25251 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Roman settlement and multi-period finds, Field Dalling |
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Summary
Metal-detecting between 1988 and 2017 showed this to be the site of a possible Roman settlement. This idea is supported by the discovery of Roman brooches, a pin, over a hundred coins (including about ten coins fused together) and a large amount of pottery. Other finds include prehistoric flakes, a Neolithic blade and core, a Bronze Age plano-convex knife; Late Iron Age, medieval and post-medieval coins and post-medieval tokens; aswell as Early Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds includes an Early Saxon patrix; a Late Saxon brooch; a medieval papal bull and vessel fragment; and a medieval/post-medieval personal ornament.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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| Parish: | FIELD DALLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1988. Metal-detecting
Roman greyware sherds and flanged bowl sherds. NCM.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM), 4 April 1989.
Early Saxon to Middle Saxon discoidal copper alloy patrix die depicting four intertwined Style II beasts. c.670 – c.700. Identified by Sue Margeson. [1].
Also see Secondary File and (S3).
Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 3 April 2017.
November 1992. Fieldwalking and metal detecting. Extended area to north. [2].
Thirty seven 2nd to 4th century AD coins. Includes fused cluster of approximately ten coins 3rd to 4th century AD.
See list in file.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM), 9 December 1992.
Roman knob-headed pin with expanded shank.
Roman pottery includes mortarium, Samian and grey wares.
See list in file.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM), 21 June 1993.
10th century Viking/Borre style brooch, lug parallel with edge (broken), catchplate. (S1) in file.
Medieval cast vessel foot, paper clip sheet rivet.
?Medieval lead fragment, rather like half an ampulla but solid.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 23 June 1993.
W. Milligan (NCM), 15 February 1994.
1996. [3].
Base sherd Roman greyware ('sandwich' section, oxidised margins).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 April 1997.
1997, up to mid May. Metal detecting. [4].
Forty four Roman coins.
One Roman brooch.
Post medieval jetton.
Medieval or post medieval object.
Undated molten bronze.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 July 1997.
Six worked flints, Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
See list by P. A. Robins (NCM) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 February 1999.
1998. Metal detecting. [5].
Roman brooch.
Twenty five Roman coins.
One medieval and one post medieval coin.
One post medieval token.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 June 1999.
W.F. Milligan's annotated map of [6]'s finds. (S2) in file.
See W.F. Milligan's note on Roman and post medieval sherds.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 March 2000.
Before 20 August 1998. Metal detecting.
Papal bulla.
See file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 December 2001.
November 2005.
The large quantity of Roman pottery and the large number of Roman coins found suggest that this was possibly the site of a Roman settlement. The discovery of Roman metalwork also supports this conclusion.
D. Robertson (NLA), 24 November 2005.
January-September 2017. Metal-detecting. [7].
1 Late Iron Age coin.
20 Roman coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 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
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 10 BC to 43 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN HOARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 55 AD to 80 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 221 AD to 235 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 285 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 286 AD to 293 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 324 AD to 325 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 324 AD to 330 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 343 AD to 348 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 350 AD to 353 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 367 AD to 378 AD)
- PATRIX (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BULL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
| <S2> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Behr, C., Pestell, T., and Hines, J. 2014. The Bracteate Hoard from Binham - An Early Anglo-Saxon Central Place?. Medieval Archaeology. Vol LVIII pp 44-77. pp 60-61. |
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