Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4037 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman, Late Saxon and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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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 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81NW |
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| Parish: | CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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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. |
Related records - none
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