Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23748 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Copper alloy and enamel medieval ceremonial object |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered a copper alloy and red and blue enamel medieval cross-shaped decorative mount. This may have been attached to a religious object such as a crucifix or reliquary.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 15 90 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM19SE |
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| Parish: | ASLACTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1986-87. Metal detecting. On arable.
Copper alloy decorative mount, small iron rivet through centre, pointed equal-armed cross with fine blue and red enamel decoration. Roughly circular projection halfway down each arm of the cross, decorated with small circles of red enamel, each pair supporting a small square containing a cross in enamel (colour not discernable) in a field of white. One arm of cross bent forward as if prised off something. Possibly from a cross or reliquary.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 26 June 1987.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CRUCIFIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- RELIQUARY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Unknown. 1986. Drawing of a medieval cross-shaped decorative mount.. Paper. 2:1. |
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