Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25677 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period findspot |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 1989 recovered an extremely rare medieval coin, a halfpenny of Henry I (1100 to 1135). Fieldwalking in 1992 recovered prehistoric worked flints. Metal-detecting in 2010 recovered post-medieval jettons, a prehistoric flint flake, Romano-British, medieval and post-medieval pot sherds, Early Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-med metal objects including a fragment of Early Saxon long-brooch, medieval writing leads and a post-medieval pipe tamper.
Images
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 23 92 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM29SW |
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| Parish: | HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Late 1989. Metal-detecting. Halfpenny of Henry I. Round halfpenny, not cut. Extremely rare coin. In file is identification by Fitzwilliam Museum. See 1:2500 map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 January 1990.
November 1992-January 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Evaluation on proposed route of Hardwick Landfill site access road:
Flints.
See report (S1) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.164).
E. Rose (NAU), 11 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 December 2022.
Before 20 October 2010. Metal-detecting.
Prehistoric flint flake, Romano-British, medieval and post-medieval pot sherds, Early Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects and three post-medieval jettons.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 1 March 2011.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- LONG BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STYLUS (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PIPE TAMPER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SCISSORS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SWORD BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Summary Report on an Archaeological Survey on the Hardwick Landfill Site Access. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. |
Related records - none
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