Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11535 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman, medieval and post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds were found at this location in 1976. Subsequent metal-detecting between 2015 and 2024 recovered an Early Neolithic flint end scraper; a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint core; Roman and medieval coins; medieval jettons; a possible medieval token and a number of other, Iron Age to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include a Early/Middle Iron Age probable dagger pommel; Roman brooches and finger rings; a Roman/Early Saxon military buckle; a Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag; a Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian four-way harness link or strap distributor; a Late Saxon/medieval lead token or weight; medieval buckles, brooches and lead seal matrix and a post-medieval coin weight.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 38 92 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39SE |
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| Parish: | GELDESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| KIRBY CANE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find:
On field surface among sugar beet. [1].
Medieval unglazed sherd and post medieval stoneware, Staffordshire. Comb slipped ware, and lead glazed ware.
Information from record card (S1).
February-March 2015. Metal-detecting. [2].
Post-medieval coin weight.
Information from PAS import.
This object was previously recorded under NHER 60378.
Site extended to the whole field. Original extent recorded as Context 1.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 April 2014. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 December 2023.
January-October 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint core.
Early/Middle Iron Age probable dagger pommel (S2).
1 Roman coin and a finger ring.
1 medieval jetton.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 10 November 2016 and P. Watkins (HES), 8 January 2024.
April 2016. Metal-detecting. [4].
2 Roman coins.
2 medieval coins and a buckle.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 5 May 2017.
November 2017. Metal-detecting. [4].
Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 January 2018.
January 2020-March 2024. Metal-detecting. [5].
1 Early Neolithic flint end scraper.
14 Roman coins, 2 brooch fragments and 2 finger rings.
Roman/Early Saxon military buckle frame.
Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag.
Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian four-way harness link or strap distributor.
Late Saxon/medieval lead token or weight.
13 medieval coins, 2 jettons, 2 annular brooches, 2 buckles and lead seal matrix.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 18 November 2023 to 17 February 2025.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 101 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- CORE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- DAGGER (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 301 BC)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 250 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 60 AD to 400 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 69 AD to 79 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 70 AD to 250 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 125 AD to 128 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 161 AD to 180 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 196 AD to 250 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 197 AD to 198 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 200 AD to 300 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 286 AD to 293 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 286 AD to 293 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 293 AD to 296 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 293 AD to 296 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 298 AD to 299 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 298 AD to 299 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 307 AD to 307 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 340 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 340 AD)
- BUCKLE (Roman to Early Saxon - 350 AD to 500 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- HOOKED TAG (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 750 AD to 1065 AD)
- HOOKED TAG (Middle Saxon to Medieval - 800 AD to 1100 AD)
- HARNESS FITTING (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
- TOKEN (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1500 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1154 AD to 1180 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1204 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1204 AD to 1210 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1207 AD to 1210 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1217 AD to 1217 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1450 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1282 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1343 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1281 AD to 1344 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1282 AD to 1289 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1310 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1327 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1315 AD to 1317 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1352 AD to 1353 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1373 AD to 1415 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1396 AD to 1439 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1396 AD to 1439 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (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> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of an Early to Middle Iron Age dagger fitting. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1. |
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