Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35090 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | 4th century Roman coin hoard |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered a scattered hoard of 127 Roman coins minted before 320 AD originally stored in a Roman pot. Other finds from the vicinity include other Roman pottery fragments, a prehistoric flake, scraper and Neolithic knife.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | CARLETON ST PETER, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Early February 2000. Metal detecting. Found in plough soil. Height OD 10m.
Roman coin hoard. 4th century.
Parts of a greyware pot still containing one (out of 53) coins.
See draft coin hoard catalogue in file.
One coin acquired by British Museum (2001,0909.1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 February 2000 and A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 September 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2020.
December 2002/January 2003. Metal detecting.
See file for notes, (S1), 1:2500 map copy and list of surface finds in the vicinity.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 February 2003.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN HOARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN HOARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished Document: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 2001. Treasure Annual Report 2000. pp 120-121; No 257. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Drawing: Unknown. Sketch plan of finds site. Film. |
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