Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25941 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Head from 18th or 19th century tobacco jar |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered a lead head from an 18th or 19th century tobacco jar.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 19 13 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SE |
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| Parish: | HORSFORD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November 1990. Metal detecting find
?Iron Age or ?Roman Lead 'Negroid' head similar to those found at Snettisham (NHER 1487 context 29; also British Museum excavations, November 1990)
To be photographed NAU.
D. Gurney (NAU), 6 December 1990
January 1991.
Lead head found November 1990 reinterpreted as part of 18th/19th century tobacco jar lid.
See (S1).
D. Gurney (NLA), 3 January 1991
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FIGURINE (Undated)
- FIGURINE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Publication: Myer, R.. Chats on Old English Tobacco Jars. |
Related records - none
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