Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1249 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman key and post medieval pottery |
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Summary
Shallow trenching at this location produced only a few sherds of 16th and 17th century pottery. A Roman copper alloy key handle was found at this site in 1990.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6202 1939 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61NW |
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| Parish: | KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Casual discovery.
Shallow trenching produced only a few 16th/17th century body sherds of red ware. Frechen stoneware.
See (S1).
A. Carter.
1990. Found in a pile (of soil?) on waste ground in Friars' Street.
Roman copper alloy key handle, iron shank missing.
Compare with example in (S2).
See also (S3).
Identified by E.B. Green (NCM), 23 May 1990.
W.F. Milligan (NCM), 24 May 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Clarke, H. & Carter, A.. 1977. Excavations in King's Lynn 1963-1970.. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph. No 7. pp 466-467. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Crummy, N.. 1983. The Roman Small Finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9.. Colchester Archaeology. No 4618. p 126, fig 142, no 4161. |
| <S3> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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