Record Details

NHER Number:36551
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age to Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds

Summary

Sporadic metal-detecting between 2000 and 2015 recovered Roman, medieval and post medieval coins; a post-medieval token and jetton and Bronze Age to Roman and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Bronze Age/Iron Age copper alloy collar or link; a Roman brooch; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval brooch, mount, weight, seal matrix, ring, key, thimble, spindle whorl, copper alloy vessel fragment and basal sherd of a ceramic crucible; a medieval/post-medieval thimble and post medieval harness fittings, a coin weight, tack, spur fragment, seal, key, bell, purse, book clasp decorated with stamped crowns.

Images

  • Medieval crucible from NHER 36551  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 14 34
Map Sheet:TG13SW
Parish:LITTLE BARNINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
MATLASK, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Summer 2000. Metal detecting rally. Field 19.
Two Roman coins.
Four medieval coins.
Seven post medieval coins.
?Bronze Age/Iron Age, Roman, medieval, post medieval metal finds. These include a possible Bronze Age or Iron Age copper alloy collar or link, part of a medieval mount and a post medieval book clasp decorated with stamped crowns.
See lists in file.
See also NHER 6689.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 December 2001. Amended by M. Dennis (NLA), 26 April 2006.

Summer 2005. Metal detecting, finders' Fields 22 and 23. Site extended.
2 medieval coins.
Medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file and CD.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 September 2006.

April-May 2015. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval flat basal sherd of a ceramic crucible.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 July 2016.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • 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

  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUTTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CRUCIBLE (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TACK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. 2001. Finds Photograph. Polaroid.
---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Photograph: Riddler, I.. 2005. Digital photographs of Discovery Tours finds, Summer 2005. CD.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

Related records - none

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