Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31318 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting and fieldwalking was carried out on the site of a proposed quarry. A possible cauldron rim, a fragment of copper alloy, an early Georgian coin and a piece of modern brooch were found. Later metal detecting recovered a Roman dolphin type brooch.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 22 81 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM28SW |
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| Parish: | NEEDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1995. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey and Watching Brief.
Field survey carried out on site of proposed quarry at Needham.
Visibility was not good due to a cereal crop which had recently been cut and spread on the field.
Only four finds were recovered by metal detector: a possible cauldron rim, a fragment of bronze, an early Georgian coin and a piece of modern bronze brooch.
No archaeological features or deposits were observed during subsequent monitoring of topsoil stripping.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
S. Bates (NAU), 12 July 1995.
June to July 1998. Metal detecting.
Dolphin brooch with hinge mechanism, head and top of bar only surviving. White metal coated. The wings are tubular and hold a bronze axis bar; there is a curious curled piece of bronze strip (rectangular in section) protruding from the pin-slot, which is perhaps part of the pin. The wings are undecorated. The bar is narrow and facetted at top: at the angle it is transversely ribbed, circular in section and broken (old break).
Roman, 1st century AD.
See (S3).
Identified by H. Geake (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 July 1999.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief at Needham Borrow Pit. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 138. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1996. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1995. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 397-412. p 403. |
| <S3> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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