Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31423 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman and undated finds, A143 Brockdish-Needham bypass (Brockdish, poorly located; Needham, poorly located) |
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Summary
Metal-detecting undertaken during the construction of the A143 Brockdish-Needham bypass in 1995 a small number of objects from relocated topsoil being used for roadside banks. These included a Roman brooch and an undated lead weight or spindle whorl.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1995. Watching Brief.
Metal-detecting undertaken during the construction of the A143 Brockdish to Needham bypass recovered a small number number of objects from relocated topsoil being used for roadside banks:
1 undated lead weight or spindle whorl and unidentified copper alloy object.
1 Roman copper alloy Colchester-type one-piece brooch.
See report (S1) for further details. This work is also noted in (S2).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.333).
S.Bates (NAU) 2 August 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015 and 16 December 2022.
The origin of the objects cannot be more precisely obtained other than that they were from spoil heaps from the roadworks. For full identifications see report (S1).
E.Rose (NLA) 25 September 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: HEL, HEM. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief on the Brockdish - Needham Bypass. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 134. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1996. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1995. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 397-412. p 398. |
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