Record Details

NHER Number:4037
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman, Late Saxon and medieval to post-medieval finds

Summary

It is recorded that Roman pottery was found at this location in the earlier part of the 20th century. Metal-detecting between 2023 and 2024 recovered a post-medieval coin and a number of other metal objects, including a Late Saxon finger ring; medieval buckles; a medieval/post-medieval buckle and copper alloy cooking vessel fragment and a post-medieval spur.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8278 1683
Map Sheet:TF81NW
Parish:CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Roman sherds found here.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

May 2023-August 2024. Metal-detecting. [1].
Late Saxon finger ring.
3 medieval buckles.
Medieval/post-medieval buckle and copper alloy cooking vessel fragment.
1 post-medieval coin and a spur.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [2].
P. Watkins (HES), 24 April 2025.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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

  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 900 AD to 1050 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1550 AD)
  • SPUR (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1684 AD to 1687 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 81 NW 2 [2].
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Castle Acre.

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