Record Details

NHER Number:37177
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age awl and Roman metal object

Summary

A Bronze Age awl a Roman brooch, and a possible Roman spoon probe, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 00 20
Map Sheet:TG02SW
Parish:BILLINGFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

April-May 2002. Metal-detecting.
1 ? Bronze Age copper alloy awl (S1).
1 Roman brooch fragment (unusual, ?T-shaped) and 1 ?spoon-probe fragment.
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 15 June 2002.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 17 March 2014.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COSMETIC ARTICLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Ashley, S.. 2002. Drawing of a Bronze Age awl. Film. 1:1.

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