Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20853 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age and Roman coins |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered an Iron Age silver coin and six Roman coins. These finds are part of a larger Roman to Late Saxon settlement and Early Saxon cemetery complex.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72SW |
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| Parish: | CONGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1984. Metal detecting.
Small coin, Iceni face- horse type B (weight 0.637 gms (NCM)).
Information from [1].
I.D. A. Gregory (NAU).
E. M. James (KLM), 13 October 1984.
December 1984. Small scatter centred on above findspot.
Late 1st to early 2nd century sestertius, very corroded,
AE3/4 Seaby 3786 GLORIA EXERCITVS Constantine I AD 307-337.
AE4 GLORIA EXERCITVS 1 standard House of Constantine AD 335-40.
Centenionalis Seaby 3923 VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAES Magnentius AD 350-3.
AE4 reverse illegible House of Constantine 4th century.
Inf and penes [1].
I.D. A. Gregory (NAU) (AE4's) and E. M. James (KLM)., latter comp 20 December 1984.
E. M. James (KLM), 20 December 1984.
This site falls within metal-detector scatter NHER 25765.
E. Rose (NAU), 31 May 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Photograph: CUJ30-6. |
Related records
| 25765 | Part of: Late Iron Age activity, Early Saxon cemetery and Roman to early medieval settlement, plus multi-period finds (Monument) |
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