Record Details

NHER Number:22706
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age coin

Summary

An Iron Age coin, made of gold, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

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Parish:BRETTENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1986.
Exact findspot and circumstances of discovery uncertain assumed to be a metal detecting find, and quite likely from the Roman site NHER 5653.
Cast potin coin of Gaulish type, still attached to sprue, weight 64 grains.
A. Gregory, (NAU) 23 June 1986.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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