Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11799 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Saxon finds |
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Summary
Early Saxon glass beads, two brooches and a pin that were found in the spoil from a trench in 1976. Human remains were also reported with the finds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 78 93 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SE |
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| Parish: | MUNDFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Dug from side of pipe trench.
Copper alloy annular brooch, decorated with lines and crosses, (S1).
Copper alloy pin with flat circular head, (S2).
2 blue glass beads, 5 red, yellow and green glass paste beads and flat amber bead, (S3).
Apparently all found together, but information on this not reliable.
Foot of copper alloy cruciform found in spoil from trench, also human bones (but this latter not seen), (S4).
Photographed.
Information via NCM.
(S4) in file shows that the foot of cruciform is the same object as [1] claimed in 1977 to have found at site NHER 5053 - information from [2].
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1981.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- BEAD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- PIN (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: Unknown. Unknown. [unknown]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1976. Drawing of an Early Saxon copper alloy annular brooch.. Card. 2:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1976. Drawing of an Early Saxon copper alloy pin with flat circular head.. Card. 2:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1976. Drawings of Early Saxon glass beads.. Card. 2:1. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1976. Drawing of the Foot of an Early Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch.. Card. 2:1. |
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