Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19798 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Undated, Iron Age, Roman, and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
In 1982 a scatter of medieval pottery sherds was found on the ploughed field surface here. Fieldwalking in 2016 recovered an undated lava quern fragment; Iron Age, Roman, and medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds, and a medieval roof tile fragment. Metal-detecting between 2017 and 2024 recovered undated casting waste; a medieval coin and a number of other metal objects, including a medieval strap end, buckle and harness pendant; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment and a post-medieval weight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 37 05 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30NE |
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| Parish: | STRUMPSHAW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Autumn 1982. Found on surface of ploughed field immedietly east of Hassingham Hall.
Scatter about 100m in diameter of medieval unglazed body sherds.
Information from member of the public [1].
A. Gregory (NAU) 5 December 1983.
May 2016. Fieldwalking and metal-detecting. [2].
Undated Rhineland lava quern fragment.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
40 Roman pottery sherds.
Late Saxon/medieval copper alloy object, possible a strap fitting.
13 medieval pottery sherds.
3 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds and 1 roof tile fragment.
34 post-medieval pottery sherds.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2019. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2021.
January-December 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
Undated casting waste.
Medieval strap-end.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 May 2018.
May-June 2019. Metal-detecting. [3].
Medieval buckle.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment.
Post-medieval weight.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
A. Beckham (HES), 9 July 2019.
May-November 2024. Metal-detecting. [4].
1 medieval coin and a harness pendant.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 June 2025.
NMD072025 - PAS details awaited. [5].
Finder's field 'Blind's Meadow'.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 July 2025.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- CASTING WASTE (Unknown date)
- QUERN (Unknown date)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1300 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1250 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1185 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- STRAP END (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1450 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
- POT (16th Century to 18th Century - 1550 AD to 1800 AD)
- WEIGHT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records - none
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