Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6538 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced prehistoric and Roman finds (Briston, poorly located) |
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Summary
The Norwich Castle Museum holds several objects that were recovered at unknown locations in Briston prior to the mid 20th century. These include a prehistoric perforated quartzite macehead, a Roman coin and a puddingstone quern of probable Roman date.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | BRISTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Various objects known to have been found in Briston before the mid 20th century, but with little additional information regarding provenance:
FINDS IN THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM
1885. Stray Find.
1 prehistoric quartzite "hammer head" (NWHCM : 1914.127). Possibly the object marked as "macehead" on (S1) marked (?mistakenly) as Brinton. Information from (S2). Exhibited by S. Cozens-Hardy at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia on 13 October 1913 (on behalf of Dr J. F. Skrimshire of Holt) where it was described as a "…cylindrical hammer-head of quartzite, perforated and polished, 3 1/2 in. by 2 in., ploughed up in Briston" (S3). Also noted in (S4). The petrology of this object was confirmed as quartzite by Dr J. S. Wallis in 1969 and is one of the objects included in (S5).
Although perforated quartzite maces are generally difficult to date the recorded descriptions suggests that this particular object is more likely to be a later example, perhaps Neolithic or Bronze Age.
Pre September 1951. Stray Find.
?Roman upper stone of pudding stone rotary quern (NWHCM : 1951.141 : A).
Information from (S6).
Previously recorded as NHER 6543.
Pre 1952.
Found in NCM coin collections, labelled Briston - no more details:
Roman Follis of Constantine I, SOLI INVICTO COMITI (NWHCM : 1952.140).
A. Gregory (NAU) 28 March 1984.
Information from (S7).
Previously recorded as NHER 20207.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- MACE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Map: Clarke, W.G.. 1922. MS map. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: 1914. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt IV (for 1913-14) pp 485-491. p 486. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: 1913. Proceedings of Archaeological Societies [3 of 3]. The Antiquary. Vol XLIX pp 471-474. p 473. |
| <S5> | Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155. N 110. |
| <S6> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. |
| <S7> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 6538, 6543 and 20207. |
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