Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30424 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Roman settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and metal detecting have recovered a large number of Roman finds including coins, pieces of pot and quern, potentially military harness mounts, two lead steelyard weights, a possible Roman brooch and a Roman helmeted bust from a figurine.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 91 11 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91SW |
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| Parish: | NECTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
20 February 1994.
Area of Context 1:
Concentration of Roman pottery, some brick/tile and iron slag.
See (S1) and list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA).
July/August 1994. [1].
Roman helmeted bust from figurine. See (S2).
Roman coin. See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 11 November 1994.
December 1994 to January 1995.
Six Roman coins. See list in file.
Pin from brooch, white metal coating on head which has offset roughly circular terminal, pierced in centre, below a collar of rectangular section with two zones of engraved transverse lines, with a long tapering shaft. ?Roman.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM) and S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 June 1995.
January/February 1995. [2].
Roman pottery finds and two lead steelyard weights.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 February 1995.
April 1995. [3].
Further finds of Roman pottery, metalworking debris, lead objects.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 April 1995.
2023. Metal-detecting. [4].
3 Roman potentially military vulvate or 'coffee-bean' harness mounts.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field. Original extent recorded as Context 1.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 February 2024 and 1 September 2024.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Undated)
- POT (Undated)
- QUERN (Undated)
- QUERN (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- WEIGHT (Undated)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FIGURINE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STEELYARD WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Roman - 100 AD to 300 AD)
- BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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