Record Details

NHER Number:32831
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period metal finds

Summary

Metal detecting in 1997 and 1999 recovered a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, a Roman coin, a Late Saxon strap end, a late medieval to early post medieval buckle frame and a post medieval coin.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 01 41
Map Sheet:TG04SW
Parish:LANGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Up to mid May 1997. Metal detecting finds.
Three Roman coins.
One post medieval coin.
See list in file.
One post medieval buckle frame, 16th/17th century, double oval, as in (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 July 1997.

First half 1999. Metal detecting.
Bronze Age or Late Bronze Age axe fragment, (S2).
One Roman coin.
Late Saxon strap end.
Medieval/post medieval buckle.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 31 December 1999.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Monograph: Margeson, S.. 1993. Norwich Households: Medieval and post-medieval finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978.. East Anglian Archaeology. No 58. No 168.
<S2>Illustration: Rogerson, A. 1999. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragment.. Film. 1:1.

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