Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30689 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds scatter |
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Summary
A fragment of an Iron Age harness fitting, a Roman coin, part of an Early Saxon brooch, medieval pottery and a buckle, found by metal detecting.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 29 04 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20SE |
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| Parish: | BRAMERTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May/June 1994.
Roman coin. See list in file.
Rim of medieval unglazed jar.
Roman lead mount or setting. Female Republican head, probably cast from a Republical coin. Holes on either side of head indicate how this were aligned within its setting.
?Book mount. medieval. L shaped. Hole at end of long arm, fold at other, recessed zone on both sides of short arm, with diagonal grooveson one face, and 3 short grooves on one face of long arm.
2 early post medieval buckle, very similar, one only half surviving. Deeply bowed sides, central bar. 2 corners have large circular excrescences and other 2 have smaller ones.
Slightly less than half of Early Saxon annular brooch with deep ring and dot decoration.
Identified A. Rogerson (NLA) and J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 June 1994.
May/June 1994. Found with previously reported finds:
Part of early 1st century AD Iron Age bronze terret (S1). Linear grooved decoration. Very battered condition. Most of loop missing.
Identified British Museum (Prehistoric Romano British Antiquities).
Late 1997 or 1998. Metal detecting.
Footings and other groundworks for double garage examined.
No significent finds.
See location map in file
A. Rogerson, (NLA) 23 June 1999.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Early Saxon - 800 BC to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: 1994. LEC 28-29, Romano British mount.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1994. LEC 30-31, Early Saxon brooch.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1994. LEC 35-36, Early Saxon disc brooch.. |
| <S1> | Illustration: White, S.. 1994. Drawing of an Iron Age Bronze terret.. Film. 2:1. |
Related records - none
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