Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20976 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unidentified medieval object |
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Summary
An object resembling a thimble divided into angular sections and pricked within sections with a hole in the top has been suggested to be a cap for a wooden or bone object. It was found with a metal detector. It is thought to be medieval.
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.
Object resembling thimble, divided into angular sections, pricked within sections, hole in centre top. Exactly like brass object from East Rudham (NHER 3632) but bronze.
S. Margeson (NCM) suggests ?cap from wooden or bone object.
Information from penes [1].
See (S1).
E. M. James (KLM), 29 September 1984.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Slide: Various. Slide. |
Related records
| 30754 | Part of: Early Saxon cemetery and Roman to Early Medieval settlement, multi-period findspot. (Monument) |