Record Details
| NHER Number: | 28973 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age coin |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 1992 recovered an Iron Age gold coin. A fieldwalking and metal-detecting survey of part of this field in 2008 recovered prehistoric worked flints; medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; a possibly post-medieval pantile fragment; a medieval coin and a post-medieval button.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13SW |
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| Parish: | CORPUSTY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 1992. Metal-detecting.
Found by [1] at [2]:
1 Iron Age coin. Iceni gold stater, Early Freckenham type (compare to examples in (S1)). See (S2).
Identified J. Davies (NCM) 5 May 1992.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2019.
March-April 2008. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Sheringham Shoals Offshore Windfarm Grid Connection (Field 38).
Finds recovered included:
1 prehistoric flint bifacially flaked piece and 1 retouched flake.
1 medieval coin and 1 pottery sherd.
5 post-medieval pottery sherds and 1 copper alloy button.
1 ?post-medieval pantile.
1 undatable lead sheet.
See report (S3) for further details. This work is also noted in (S4)
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.361).
S. Howard (NLA), 20 November 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHEET (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PANTILE? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Monograph: Van Arsdell, R.. 1989. Celtic Coinage in Britain.. 620-7. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Westall, S. and Smith, M. 2008. An Archaeological Fieldwalking and Metal-detector Survey Along the Route of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Grid Connection. NAU Archaeology. 1808a. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Hoggett, R. 2010. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2009. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLVI Pt I pp 135-147. p 146. |
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