Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31058 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age brooch |
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Summary
An Iron Age brooch found by metal detecting. The brooch is an early example of a hinged brooch, and the pin hinge was repaired with a wooden peg.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 06 12 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01SE |
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| Parish: | HOCKERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
28 November 1994. Detector find in leaf mould beside riverside footpath. ?Dredged out.
La Tene I brooch, (S1), 'Wessex type' with dummy hinged spring and wooden axis bar (?repair).
See detailed description in file.
D. Gurney (NLA) 2 March 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: 1995. LDD 1-4, Iron Age la tene I brooch.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: White, S.. 1995. Drawing of an Iron Age la tene I brooch.. Film. 2:1. |
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