Record Details

NHER Number:41894
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead and Late Saxon to post-medieval finds

Summary

Metal detecting between 2005 and 2017 recovered medieval and post-medieval coins; an Early Bronze Age flat copper alloy axehead; a Late Saxon to post-medieval spindle whorl and a medieval harness pendant.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 34 11
Map Sheet:TG31SW
Parish:HEMBLINGTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

April-May 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 Early Bronze Age flat axehead. See drawing (S1).
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 June 2005.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 27 March 2014.

June-July 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 medieval coin.
1 post-medieval coin and a fragment of a toy musket.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 20 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017.

July 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [1].
Late Saxon to post-medieval spindle whorl.
Medieval harness pendant.
A. Beckham (HES), 20 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 5 September 2017.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to 19th Century - 851 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to 16th Century - 1000 AD to 1600 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1307 AD to 1309 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1352 AD)
  • TOY (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1631 AD to 1632 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age flat axe.. Film. 1:1.

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