Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25431 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered four Roman coins, a possible medieval copper alloy human head and the tip of a Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead. The human head may have been part of a knife handle.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 40 92 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM49SW |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
20 August 1989. Found with metal detecting. Gorleston Metal Detectorists Club rally car park.
Four Roman coins: sestertii of Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina I and II.
See coin list in file.
Medieval? bronze human head, from knife handle? No details, (S1).
Tip of Bronze Age spearhead.
D. Gurney (NAU), 25 August 1989
For a similar miniature head, see Weybourne NHER 31088.
D. Gurney (NLA), 19 January 1996.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- FIGURINE (Undated)
- KNIFE (Undated)
- SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FIGURINE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: FHR21-28. |
| <S1> | Illustration: White, S.. 1989. Drawing of a medieval bronze human head from knife handle.. Paper. 2:1. |
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