Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34848 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1998 and 2006 recovered a Palaeolithic flint handaxe (the form of which suggests a Middle Palaeolithic date); medieval coins; a post-medieval token and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a medieval harness mount, buckle and copper alloy vessel fragment; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment and a post-medieval dress hook, ?mount and lead weight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 03 36 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NW |
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| Parish: | BRINTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1998. Metal-detecting.
Found in area centred [1]:
1 Palaeolithic sub-cordate flint handaxe. Perhaps Middle Palaeolithic. See drawing (S1).
2 medieval coins, 1 buckle and 1 copper alloy vessel fragment.
1 medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment.
1 post-medieval jetton, 1 ?mount, 1 lead weight and 2 lead window cames.
1 undatable lead weight and 2 lead ?weights.
Handaxe identified by P. Robins (NCM), numismatic items by J. Davies (NCM) and other objects by A. Rogerson (NLA). See list and descriptions in file. These discoveries were reported in (S2) and the handaxe is also noted on (S3).
A. Rogerson(NLA), 4 October 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.
Before 16 March 2006. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval harness mount.
1 post medieval dress hook.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), see list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 April 2006.
Previously recorded under NHER 37709.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 June 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC? to 40001 BC)
- 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
- WEIGHT (Undated)
- WEIGHT? (Undated)
- HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC? to 40001 BC)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- CAME (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1999. Drawing of a ?Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Brinton. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2001. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 2000. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt IV pp 694-707. p 695. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Brinton. |
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