Record Details

NHER Number:25629
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman and medieval finds

Summary

Metal detecting recovered Neolithic/Bronze Age scrapers, a Bronze Age flat copper alloy axehead, a Roman coin and two medieval coins.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 04 12
Map Sheet:TG01SW
Parish:MATTISHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1989. Metal detecting finds
Penny of Henry III. Short cross with sceptre.
Half groat of Edward III - to the south.
Early Bronze Age flat axe at [1], (S1).
To be photographed.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 December 1989.

November to December 1990. Metal detecting find. [2].
Roman coin (see form in file)
Identified by D. Gurney (NLA).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 January 1991.

September-October 2017. Metal-detecting. [3].
2 Neolithic/Bronze Age scrapers.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald, 1 January 2018.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 99.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Photograph: FHM11-14,FHS19,25-27.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J.. 1989. Drawing of a Bronze Age flat copper alloy axehead.. Card. 1:1.

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