Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11401 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Mesolithic, Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint tranchet adze was ploughed up here in 1976, while metal-detecting between 2015 and 2018 recovered Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins as well as a medieval thimble and a post-medieval strap fitting.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 39 28 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NE |
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| Parish: | LESSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find.
Ploughed up on small sandy hillock:
1 Mesolithic chipped flint axe with apparent left-handed tranchet. Dimensions 16.8cm by 5.5cm. Triangular section. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1976.377).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU).
Information from (S1).
First reported in (S2) and subsequently described by R. Jacobias a 'Norfolk-type' Mesolithic tranchet adze (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 June 2014.
October 2014. Metal-detecting. Site extended 140m to the south-west. [1].
ENMD102014 - PAS details to follow.
A. Beckham (HES), 14 October 2014.
October-November 2015. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
Medieval thimble.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 December 2015.
December 2015-January 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
3 Roman coins.
1 medieval coin.
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 February 2016.
March-April 2017. Metal-detecting. [4].
1 post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 May 2017.
June-July 2018. Metal-detecting. [5].
Post-medieval strap fitting.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 September 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 260 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 260 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 296 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1281 AD)
- THIMBLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1609 AD to 1610 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1976. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1976. No 23. p 14. |
| <S3> | Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10286. |
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