Record Details

NHER Number:28497
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman finds

Summary

A Roman pottery sherd was found by chance at this location in 1990. Subsequent metal-detecting between 2023 and 2024 recovered a number of additional Roman finds, including a brooch, cosmetic or medical spoon and fragments of a copper alloy vessel or vessel-like object.

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Location

Grid Reference:TM 17 83
Map Sheet:TM18SE
Parish:DICKLEBURGH AND RUSHALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1990. Stray Find.
Found on Dickleburgh Moor at [1]:
Roman greyware base, very fine.
Information from [2].
Identified by D. Gurney (NLA), 7 September 1990.
W. Milligan (NCM), 10 September 1990

October 2023-January 2024. Metal-detecting [3].
Roman brooch, cosmetic, medical or toilet spoon and incomplete copper alloy vessel/platter or vessel-like object.
Information from PAS import.
Site expanded to whole field, mapped to the edge of the moor area created in 2017.
H. Hamilton (HES), 14 August 2023 and P. Watkins (HES), 22 June 2025

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 100 AD)
  • MEDICAL IMPLEMENT / COSMETIC SPOON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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