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Record Details

NHER Number:	8330
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Multi-period finds

Summary

Finds recovered at this location between 1986 and 2016 (primarily as a result of fieldwalking and metal-detecting) include prehistoric worked flints; Roman, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; a post-medieval ceramic tile fragment; a Roman puddingstone quern fragment; Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins; post-medieval jettons and a range of other, medieval to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include a medieval/post-medieval buckle and drop handle from chafing dish or furniture and post-medieval buckles, crotal bells, a finger ring, hooked tag, belt mount, furniture handle escutcheon plate and possible harness hook.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TG 38 20
Map Sheet:	TG32SE
Parish:	CATFIELD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

The cropmarks previously recorded under this number are now NHER 49319 (ring ditch) and 49324-5 (enclosures).

1974.
Cropmarks of two rectangular enclosures and a circle. Noted on aerial photographs in possession of [1].

1974. Also on NAU aerial photographs.
D. A. Edwards (NAU).

29 April 1986.
(S1) examined by D. A. Edwards (NAU) and cropmarks of this complex (previously mapped from extreme oblique photography) revised on NHER map overlay.
D. A. Edwards (NAU), 29 April 1986.

This county number now also includes ring ditch formerly numbered NHER 11670 at 3853 2079. Grid reference corrected from RAF aerial photographs see below.
D. A. Edwards (NAU) ,29 April 1986.

April 1986. Fieldwalking. [2].
Area of cropmarks - county number extended to include fieldwalking finds (now includes also former site NHER 11670). See (S2).

Southern area, centred on [3] - limits not strictly defined (Context 1):
Producing late medieval to early post medieval and other medieval sherds; lead glazed earthenware sherds; post medieval glazed tile, copper alloy 16th century buckle.

Northern area, centred on [4] (Context 2):
Produced worked flint, medieval unglazed sherds, Roman greywares, post medieval sherds including lead glazed earthenware and mostly 18th century stonewares

Also, at [5]:
coin of Constantine II, GLORIA EXERCITVS, two standards, PLG Lyons, AD 330-5.
I.D. A. K. Gregory (NAU) and W. F. Milligan (NCM) 21 April 1986.

April 1987. Stray Find.
Found in farming:
Roman puddingstone quern fragment.
Post-medieval German jetton.
W. Milligan (NCM) 8 April 1987.

September-October 2007. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval coin.
Post-medieval buckle, crotal bell and swivelling possible harness hook.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 November 2007. Expanded by P. Watkins (HES), 28 April 2025.

October-November 2007. Metal detecting.
1 post-medieval coin, 1 pottery sherd, a hooked tag, belt mount and crotal bell.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 December 2007. Expanded by P. Watkins (HES), 28 April 2025.

January - February 2008. Metal detecting.
3 prehistoric flint flakes.
1 Roman coin and 2 pottery sherds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 2 April 2008.

October- November 2009. Metal detecting.
1 post-medieval jetton.
See list in file.
A. Marsden, (NLA), 18 December 2009

December 2011-January 2012. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman coin.
A. Rogerson (HES), 1 February 2012.

1 December 2011. Metal-detecting. [6].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 8 May 2012.

June-July 2012. Metal-detecting.
3 medieval pottery sherds.
Post medieval finger ring, furniture handle escutcheon plate and crotal bell.
See details in file.
S. Ashley (HES), 24 July 2012. Expanded by P. Watkins (HES), 28 April 2025.

Before 1 August 2012. Metal-detecting.
Medieval/post medieval drop handle from chafing dish or furniture.
Post-mmedieval buckle and crotal bell.
See details in file.
E. Darch (HES), August 2012.

March-April 2014. Metal-detecting. [7].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 1 May 2014.

September-October 2016. Metal-detecting. [8].
1 Roman coin.
1 medieval coin (gold quarter noble of Edward III).
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 February 2025.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 98 AD to 117 AD)
COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 161 AD)
COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 260 AD)
CHAFING DISH (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1363 AD to 1369 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FINGER RING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 32 SE 9; TG 32 SE 11.
---	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Aerial Photograph: TG3820A-J, RAF 74-37-26-IR-30-6 74-37-21-IR-30-6.
<S2>	Drawing: Unknown. Sketch plan of finds site. Film.