Record Details
| NHER Number: | 28470 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting between 1991 and 2005 recovered prehistoric worked flint including an hammerstone and Neolithic arrowhead, knife and other flint tool; Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery and coins and Roman, Early Saxon and medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman brooch, figurine, finger ring, razor and weights; and Early Saxon brooch and medieval dress accessories, a brooch, padlock, seal and part of a sieve. The amount, type and concentration of Roman finds is indicative of a small Roman settlement (see NHER 59929).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 97 36 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NE |
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| Parish: | HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
The amount, type and concentration of Roman finds recovered from the northern portion of the site is indicative of a small Roman settlement. See NHER 28470.
A. Beckham (HES), 13 December 2013.
1991. Fieldwalking and metal detecting over whole field. Field 45.[1]
Roman and medieval coins and metalwork. See list in file.
Concentration of Roman pottery, coins and artefacts.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 30 September 1991.
Late 1991. Metal detecting finds.
Further prehistoric and Roman finds.
See file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 28 February 1992.
1992. Metal detecting finds.
Medieval coin.
Roman metalwork (see file).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 23 July 1992.
1994. Generally located.
Neolithic and prehistoric flints.
Medieval sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 20 March 1995.
1998. Metal detecting.
Conical sheet copper alloy socket from a late Medieval strimmer.
Traces of wooden handle still visible in socket (2 on flat base).
Length about 95mm, max width 55mm.
Formed of 3 pieces of sheet, 8 copper alloy rivets aloy one edge, and ?the same number aloy the other.
Wood handle held in place by copper alloy nail passing through top and bottom sheet.
Identified by V. Fryer (NCM)
A. Rogerson (NLA) 11 January 1999.
Before 22 December 2005. Metal detecting.
Roman sherds and metal objects.
One medieval and one post medieval coin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 January 2006.
Associated Finds
- WEIGHT (Undated)
- ARROWHEAD (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- KNIFE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HARNESS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- RAZOR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PADLOCK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SIEVE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: FTR 12-21. |
Related records
| 59929 | Related to: Possible Roman settlement (Monument) |
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