Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31188 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age or Viking silver torc |
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Summary
In around 1979/80 a two-strand cable-twist object made from silver was dredged from the river. This object was tentatively identified as a torc and believed to be of Iron Age or Viking date.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2020 9687 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM29NW |
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| Parish: | TASBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Around 1979/80. Near Manor Farm, dredged out of the river.
Black chalk-covered two-strand cable-twist object, 17.8-20.3cm (7-8in) diameter, penannular, without terminals and unrusted. Believed by source to have been a torc.
Silver? Possibly Iron Age or Viking in date. Whereabouts unknown.
D. Gurney (NLA), 22 February 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- TORC (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- TORC (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources - none
Related records - none
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