Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20723 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman horse harness |
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Summary
A Roman horse harness with a pattern of concentric rings dated to 49 to 60 AD was found here by metal detecting. This find is part of a larger Roman to Late Saxon settlement and Early Saxon cemetery complex.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 71 23 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72SW |
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| Parish: | CONGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September 1984. Metal detecting.
Roman? horse harness pendant - copper alloy disc with pattern of concentric rings 2 to 3cm diameter. Trace of ?flat sectioned loop. Provisionally dated from comparison with similar in (S1). 49 to 60 AD.
Information from [1].
E. M. James (KLM), 29 September 1984
Part of large scatter NHER 30754.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- HARNESS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. KLM. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Crummy, N.. 1983. The Roman Small Finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9.. Colchester Archaeology. No 4618. |
Related records
| 30754 | Part of: Early Saxon cemetery and Roman to Early Medieval settlement, multi-period findspot. (Monument) |