Record Details
| NHER Number: | 28691 |
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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 1988 and 2024 recovered Roman and medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins and a range of other, undated and Bronze Age to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include an undated copper alloy unidentified object; a Middle/Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead; a Roman mount and fragment of anthropomorphic figurine; an Early Saxon brooch and girdle hanger; Late Saxon brooches, a hasp and Anglo-Scandinavian openwork mount; Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorls; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval lead spindle whorl; a medieval/post-medieval chafing dish fragment, purse fragment, copper alloy vessel fragment and lead weight and post-medieval crotal bells, a clapper bell, harness mount, spoon fragment, sword belt fitting and lead cloth seal.
Images
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 38 07 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30NE |
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| Parish: | BEIGHTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1988. Metal-detecting. [1].
Roman coin.
See form in file.
D.Gurney (NLA) 5 December 1991.
January-February 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
4 Roman coins.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [3].
A. Beckham (HES), 13 March 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 3 December 2019.
February-March 2017. Metal-detecting. [4].
Middle/Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead (S1).
9 Roman coins and 1 pottery sherd.
3 medieval coins.
1 post-medieval coin, pottery sherds, a button, crotal bell, sword belt fitting and a lead cloth seal.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 May 2017 and P. Watkins (HES), 9 March 2024.
June 2017. Metal-detecting. [5].
1 Roman coin.
Post-medieval buttons, a buckle, clapper bell and harness mount.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017.
June-July 2017. Metal-detecting. [6].
Medieval buckle.
Post-medieval buttons.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 October 2017.
July-September 2017. Metal-detecting. [7].
The following find is not recorded on the PAS database:
Medieval/post-medieval lead weight.
E. McDonald (HES), 01 December 2017.
June-September 2019. Metal-detecting. [8].
6 Roman coins.
Early Saxon cruciform brooch fragment.
Late Saxon brooch.
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorl.
2 medieval coins and a buckle.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment.
1 post-medieval coin and a crotal bell.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 October 2019.
September-October 2019. Metal-detecting. [9].
6 Roman coins, 64 pottery sherds, and a mount.
Early Saxon girdle hanger.
Late Saxon disc brooch, hasp and Anglo-Scandinavian openwork mount.
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorl.
7 medieval pottery sherds and a buckle.
2 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds, a chafing dish fragment and purse fragment.
3 post-medieval coins, 4 jettons, 1 token, buckles, and a spoon fragment.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 December 2019 and P. Watkins (HES), 4 September and 4 February 2024.
January-February 2020. Metal-detecting. [10].
2 Roman coins and fragment of anthropomorphic figurine (S2).
3 medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2020 and P. Watkins (HES), 8 January 2024.
November 2021-March 2022. Metal-detecting. [11]
4 Roman coins.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 18 November 2023.
August-September 2024. Metal-detecting. [12].
Undated copper alloy unidentified object.
1 Roman coin.
Medieval lead spindle whorl.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 June 2025.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to 19th Century - 851 AD to 1900 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
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- SOCKETED SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 30 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 30 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MOUNT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 117 AD to 137 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 147 AD to 175 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 193 AD to 196 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 388 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 269 AD to 271 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 286 AD to 293 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 293 AD to 296 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 320 AD to 321 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 324 AD to 330 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 348 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 402 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 341 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 341 AD to 348 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 351 AD to 364 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 353 AD to 360 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 353 AD to 364 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 367 AD to 375 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 367 AD to 375 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 367 AD to 375 AD)
- GIRDLE HANGER (Early Saxon - 450 AD to 600 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 480 AD to 530 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 900 AD to 1000 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 900 AD to 1000 AD)
- HASP (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
- MOUNT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to 16th Century - 1000 AD to 1600 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon to 17th Century - 1000 AD to 1700 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1350 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1400 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1158 AD to 1180 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1205 AD to 1210 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1450 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1282 AD to 1289 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1400 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1600 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1307 AD to 1309 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1309 AD to 1310 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1310 AD to 1333 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 17th Century - 1350 AD to 1650 AD)
- CHAFING DISH (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1539 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1550 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1461 AD to 1500 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- BUTTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- BUTTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1700 AD)
- BELL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1550 AD to 1800 AD)
- BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
- BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1550 AD to 1584 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1550 AD to 1584 AD)
- POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1560 AD to 1561 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1561 AD to 1561 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1575 AD to 1575 AD)
- COIN (16th Century to 17th Century - 1582 AD to 1603 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1586 AD to 1635 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1586 AD to 1651 AD)
- BUTTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- CROTAL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
- CROTAL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- SWORD BELT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
- BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1680 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1685 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1634 AD to 1635 AD)
- SPOON (17th Century to 18th Century - 1650 AD to 1750 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1650 AD to 1670 AD)
- BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1660 AD to 1720 AD)
- BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1660 AD to 1720 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age spearhead fragment. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a Roman figurine fragment. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1. |
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