Record Details

NHER Number:19335
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age gold coin, 'near Thetford'

Summary

In 1968 an Iron Age gold coin was recovered from 'near Thetford'. The exact findspot and circumstances of its discovery are not known but it may have come from Brettenham (NHER 5653).

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Location

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Parish:THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1968. Circumstances of discovery and provenance unknown. Note that 'near Thetford' is commonly used for Brettenham, NHER 5653.
Gold quarter stater, British Lx2.
See (S1). Casts at British Museum (CM).
A. Gregory (NAU), 5 July 1983.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 SE 101.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Monograph: Haselgrove, C.. 1978. Supplementary gazetteer of findspots of Celtic coins in Britain, 1977.. Archaeology Occasional Paper. Vol 11. p 31.

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