Record Details

NHER Number:33576
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman pottery and medieval or post medieval seal

Summary

A fragment of Roman pottery and a medieval or post medieval cloth seal found by metal detecting. Further work in 2008 recovered a prehistoric flint flake and a Medieval buckle.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 20 35
Map Sheet:TG23NW
Parish:HANWORTH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

March/April 1998. Metal detecting find.
Late medieval/early post medieval lead cloth seal. Crowned arms of England and France quarterly, ?lis either side, illegible legend around on one side. Crowned portcullis on other. Official alnage seal. About 1400 to 1603.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 12 May 1998.

April to May 1999. Metal detecting.
1 basal sherd Roman greyware.
Lead pot mend, with textile impression on surface of inner part.
Probably medieval.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 8 June 1999.

July - August 2008. Metal-detecting. Site extended.
1 Late Prehistoric flint flake (small, secondary, unpaninated, unworked).
1 medieval buckle plate fragment (gilt).
Flint identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other object by S. Ashley (NLA). See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 September 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 4 March 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

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