Record Details

NHER Number:24511
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval finds

Summary

Sporadic metal-detecting between 1988 and 2016 recovered medieval and post-medieval coins; post-medieval jettons and a token and Roman and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman zoormorphic buckle; a Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; medieval harness pendants and a copper alloy ring and post-medieval cuff links, a furniture fitting, spur fragment and the arm from a pair of nut crackers.

Images

  • Late Saxon stirrup from NHER 24511  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 23 00
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:STOKE HOLY CROSS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1988 or before. Metal detecting. [1]
Bronze buckle 13th century?
Bronze buckle 13th century with cast foliage decoration on frame and plate, latter with trefoil end.
Bronze ring not ring brooch, possibly binding ring with attachment loop, medieval ?
Short cross cut halfpenny in name of Henry, possibly Henry III, reverse illegible, Moneyer RON.
Penny of Henry VI 1422-7 annulets by neck, reverse depicting annulets in two quarters, legend VILLA CAL(ESIE) Calais.
Post medieval bronze spur arm fragment decorated.
Bronze nutcrackers arm fragment decorated.
French jetton 16th century Nuremberg reverse ?
French jetton probably 16th century obverse, for comparison see Barnard 100 (S1).
Hans Krauwinckel jetton 1580-1610.
Polaroids (S2) NCM.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM), 12 February 1988.

March 2003. Metal detecting.
2 medieval harness pendants.
1 post-medieval token and 1 jetton.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 July 2003.

March-April 2014. Metal-detecting. Site extended to whole field. [2].
Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount.
Medieval buckles and a mount.
1 post-medieval coin, a buckle and a furniture fitting.
Information from PAS import.
See finder's map in file.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 November 2014.

July 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
Roman zoomorphic buckle fragment moulded in the form of two confronting dolphins.
Post-medieval silver cuff links.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 6 June 2017.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BUCKLE (Roman - 300 AD to 400 AD)
  • STIRRUP (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1400 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1539 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • NUT CRACKERS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1603 AD to 1604 AD)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1680 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (17th Century to 18th Century - 1670 AD to 1730 AD)
  • CUFF LINK (18th Century - 1725 AD to 1800 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Map: Finder's Map..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Publication: Barnard, F. P. 1916. The casting-counter and the counting-board: a chapter in the history of numismatics and early arithmetic. 100.
<S2>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

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