Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37264 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal-detecting between 2002 and 2022 recovered an Early Neolithic flaked flint axehead or adze; a post-medieval pottery sherd; medieval coins and a range of other undated and Roman to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include an undatable lead weight; a Roman brooch fragment; a Middle/Late Saxon prick spur; medieval buckles and a horse-harness mount; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy cooking vessel leg and lead weight and a post medieval hooked tag, rowel spur, crotal bell, silver hooked tag, silver cufflink element and lead cloth seal.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01SE |
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| Parish: | MATTISHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 2002. Metal-detecting.
2 medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 30 May 2002.
Before 19 June 2003. Metal-detecting.
Site extended to whole field.
Middle/Late Saxon prick spur. See drawing (S1).
Medieval/post-medieval lead weight.
Post-medieval hooked tag and rowel spur.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 July 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 February 2024.
December 2003-January 2004. Metal-detecting.
Undatable lead weight.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 February 2004.
February-March 2004. Metal-detecting.
Undatable lead weight.
Medieval buckle, possible spur buckle and horse-harness mount.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 April 2004.
March-April 2004. Metal-detecting.
Medieval/post medieval copper alloy cooking vessel leg.
1 post-medieval sherd and a crotal bell.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 May 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 February 2024.
August - September 2004. Metal detecting.
Roman brooch fragment.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 October 2004.
Before 1 April 2008. Metal detecting.
Early Neolithic flaked flint axehead or adze.
Post-medieval lead cloth seal.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 21 May 2008.
March 2020-October 2022. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 medieval coin.
Post-medieval silver hooked tag and silver cufflink element (18th century).
Information from PAS import.
The post-medieval silver hooked tag was submitted for consideration as Treasure (Ref: 2022 T1251). As the silver cufflink element is likely to be less than 300 years old it doesn't meet the criteria for Treasure.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 January 2024, 9 March 2024 and 1 September 2024.
DDMD112024 – PAS details awaited. [2]
Finder’s field 'Neil Alston Field 6'.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 December 2024.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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
- WEIGHT (Unknown date)
- WEIGHT (Unknown date)
- ADZE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PRICK SPUR (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- PRICK SPUR (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1217 AD to 1242 AD)
- COIN (Medieval to 16th Century - 1485 AD to 1509 AD)
- DRESS HOOK (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1507 AD to 1508 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROWEL SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CUFF LINK (18th Century - 1725 AD to 1800 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Illustration: White, S. 2003. Drawing of a Middle/Late Saxon copper alloy prick spur. Film. 2:1. |
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