Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31039 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bradenham Early Saxon cemetery and Early Bronze Age to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Extensive metal-detecting 1994 and 2018 recovered late prehistoric worked flint; an Early Bronze Age, Iron Age and medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds; Iron Age, Middle Saxon, Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins and Early Bronze Age, Roman, Early Saxon and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include an unusual copper alloy Bronze Age awl; Roman brooches; Early Saxon brooches, wrist clasp fragments, a buckle frame and ?gusset plate fragment; a Middle Saxon brooch; a Late Saxon stirrup terminal; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; medieval casket keys, seal matrices, a horse harness fitting, thimble, copper alloy vessel fragment and annular brooch; medieval/post-medieval purse bar fragment and a post-medieval cloth seal, thimble, spur terminal and toy cannon.
The quantity and type of Early Saxon objects recovered suggests that this is the site of an Early Saxon cemetery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90NW |
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| Parish: | BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September-October 1994. Metal-detecting. [1]
Three post-medieval silver coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 November 1994.
January-February 1995. Metal-detecting. [2].
Found by [3].
1) One Roman coin. See list in file.
2) Four medieval coins, one medieval and one post-medieval token. See list in file.
3) 13th century silver ring brooch fragment with two brambled bosses.
4) Two tiny medieval casket keys.
5) Late medieval double-looped buckle, rectangular, one loop broken, grooved projecting pin-rest.
6) Late medieval double-looped rectangular buckle with zones of engraved lines on frame
7) Two early post-medieval hooked tags: one with circular plate in form of low relief rosette, broken hook, rectangular attachment loop :other with 'bud' or fruit in centre surrounded by openwork foliage with rectangular attachment loop.
8) Early post-medieval buckle.
Found by [4].
1) Two Dolphin brooches, 1st century AD: one with spring mechanism; other with hinge mechanism, tinned or silvered.
2) 12th/13th century lead seal matrix, broken lug on edge. Octofoil 'rosette' in centre S' WILL'---W: he---.
3) Late medieval purse bar fragment engraved with cross-hatched niello inlaid lines.
I.D. S. Margeson (NCM) and J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 June 1995.
April-May 1996. Metal-detecting. [5].
Iron Age silver coin.
See list in file.
Foot of Early Saxon cruciform brooch, strongly splayed terminal, moderately pronounced eyes, transverse ribbing. Oldish break. All surfaces rather smooth and shiny. ?Tinned or silvered.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 November 1996.
November 1997. Metal-detecting. [6].
Early Saxon wrist clasp fragment.
See description in file.
August-September 1998. Metal-detecting. [7].
Medieval belt fitting.
April-May 1999. Metal-detecting.
Roman coin
Middle Saxon coin
Medieval seal matrix
Four Early Saxon objects suggesting an inhumation cemetery.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 July 1999.
May-June 1999. Metal-detecting. [8].
One Roman coin.
Roman and Early Saxon brooches.
Early Saxon ?gusset plate fragment and buckle.
Unidentified object.
June-July 1999. Metal-detecting.
One Roman, three medieval and one post-medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 July 1999.
1999. Metal-detecting. [9].
Bronze Age, Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval metal finds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 September 1999.
June-July 1999. Metal-detecting. [10].
Middle Saxon brooch.
Medieval and post-medieval metal finds.
See list and (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 September 1999.
January-February 2000. Metal-detecting. [11].
Roman Dolphin brooch with hinge mechanism. The wings are 33mm long and tubular with a seam along the reverse. They enclose an iron axis bar on which a near complete copper alloy pin is corroded. The whole brooch is very worn, but there are traces of vertical decoration on the wings and two grooves down the bow. The bow tapers to a pointed foot, now bent. Remains of catchplate on reverse. 1st century AD.
I.D. H. Geake (NCM).
K. Hinds (NLA), 21 March 2000.
Casual finds 30 March 2008.
Prehistoric flint flake, Iron Age, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 April 2008.
Before 23 October 2009. Metal-detecting.
Roman, medieval (S3) and post-medieval artefacts, medieval and post-medieval coins.
See lists in file.
E. Darch (HES), 17 September 2010.
January-February 2011. Metal-detecting.
3 Roman and 3 medieval coins, Early Saxon and medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 23 March 2011.
April-May 2016. Metal-detecting. [12].
1 Early Bronze Age pottery sherd.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 June 2016.
June-July 2017. Metal-detecting. [13].
3 medieval coins.
2 post-medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 5 September 2017.
November 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval seal matrices.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 August 2020.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- VESSEL (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BUCKLE (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- SLEEVE CLASP (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- SMALL LONG BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- SQUARE HEADED BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- ANNULAR BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- RIVET (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1310 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1636 AD to 1638 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1649 AD to 1660 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
| <S2> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2010. Drawing of a medieval buckle plate.. Film. 2:1. |
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