Record Details

NHER Number:32616
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman seal box lid

Summary

A Roman seal box lid decorated with green enamel found during metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 79 22
Map Sheet:TF72SE
Parish:GREAT MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February 1997. Metal detecting find.
Roman seal box lid. Tear drop shaped, upper surface divided into three fields, one of which still contains some green enamel. There are suggestions that the other two also contained green enamel. Stubs of hinge and catch on reverse.
Identified by V. Fryer (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 28 March 1997.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SEAL BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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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