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Record Details

NHER Number:	24898
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Multi-period finds

Summary

Metal-detecting and fieldwalking at this location between 1988 and 2021 recovered prehistoric worked flints, including an Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead; Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds; a notable quantity of post-medieval pottery; Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins; post-medieval jettons; a post-medieval token and a range of other, Middle Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include a Middle Saxon strap end; a Late Saxon strap end, stirrup-strap mount and penannular finger or ear ring; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; medieval harness pendants, a casket key, cauldron foot, furniture mount, ewer spout, lead spindle whorl, lead possible bird feeder and lead weights; a medieval/post-medieval chafing dish fragment and other copper alloy vessel fragments and post-medieval book clasps, furniture escutcheon plates, a thimble, bridle boss, copper alloy vessel handle, white metal bell fragments, lead bird feeder and lead cloth seals.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TG 23 11
Map Sheet:	TG21SW
Parish:	OLD CATTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Autumn 1988. Metal detecting.
Penny John/Henry III class 5 or 6.
Penny Edward III CIVITAS LONDON.
Vespasian As ?AEQVITAS AUGUSTI 69-79.
Illegible probably Roman.
I.D. D. Gurney (NAU).

January-February 1989. Metal detecting.
Penny Richard I/John. North Class 4b 1194-1205. Moneyer DAVI, Mint York.
I.D. A. Rogerson (NAU).

September 1992. Metal detecting. [1].
Late Saxon copper alloy openwork strap end, same on both sides (top missing). Stylised leaf ornament, moulded knob at base. Bosses around edge on frame. See (S1).
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant fragment, with suspension loop roughly circular and partly missing.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 November 1992.

October 1992. Metal detecting. [1].
Medieval copper alloy casket key, lozengiform bow with circular central opening and two side lobes, and upper lobe with two transverse engraved lines.
I.S. S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 December 1992.

January-February 1993. General finds.
Medieval cauldron foot fragment. Copper alloy.
Spout of medieval ewer, moulding near effluent end, perhaps very stylised ears. Copper alloy.
Copper alloy medieval belt-mount. Two rectangular plates with rocker arm decoration on front plate. Pierced hole in centre. Single rivet at each end. Leather inside.
Late medieval buckle, double looped, leaf terminal at one end. One loop is rectangular, other oval. Remains of iron from pin. Copper alloy.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 March 1993.

February 1993. Metal detecting finds. [2].
Two medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 2 April 1993.

September/October 1993. Metal detecting. [1].
Post medieval coin and token.
Medieval lead 'pot' with transverse bands of relief decoration, i.e. fleurs-de-lis and initial 'L' alternating, and a relief 'band' near neck. ?Bird feeder.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 10 November 1993.

July/August 2006. Metal detecting club rally.
3 Roman coins.
Middle Saxon strap end.
Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount and penannular finger or ear ring.
1 medieval coin, buckles, a strap end or folding clasp, strap loop, horse-harness pendant, furniture mount, lead spindle whorl and lead weights.
Medieval/post-medieval chafing dish fragment and copper alloy vessel fragments.
7 post-medieval coins, 3 jettons and 4 tokens, buckles, book clasps, belt mounts, furniture escutcheon plates, a dress hook, thimble, bridle boss, copper alloy vessel handle, white metal bell fragments, lead bird feeder and lead cloth seals.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 September 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 September 2023.

September 2006. NAHRG fieldwalking in strip sub-divisions.
Neolithic and prehistoric worked flints.
One Late Saxon, a few medieval and many post medieval sherds.
See lists, notes and (S2) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 January 2007.

March 2021. Stray Find. [3].
Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to area of Old Catton Park. Previously mapped as a point at [4].
E. McDonald (HES), 5 May 2021 and P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2023.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC WORKING SITE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC WORKING SITE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

AWL (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
BLADE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
DEBITAGE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
DEBITAGE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
HAMMERSTONE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
KNIFE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
STRAP END (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
STIRRUP STRAP MOUNT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
CHAFING DISH (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BIRD FEEDER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FLOOR TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---	Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---	Photograph: 1992. LWN 10-11, Late Saxon copper alloy openwork strap end..
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
<S2>	Map: Finder's Map..