Record Details

NHER Number:25583
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metalwork

Summary

A Bronze Age socketed axehead, a Roman brooch and a medieval cauldron leg, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 69 06
Map Sheet:TF60NE
Parish:FINCHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1989. Metal detecting finds east southeast of Fincham Hall.
Bronze Age socketed axe blade.
Very large medieval copper alloy cauldron leg.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) and W. Milligan (NCM) 27 October 1989

1990. Metal detecting find.
Roman enamelled umbonate brooch disc (blue and orange enamel)
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM) 18 April 1990

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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