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Record Details

NHER Number:17589
Type of record:Monument
Name:Undated enclosure and multi-period finds

Summary

A circular enclosure is visible on a 1977 aerial photograph. Metal detecting between 1993 and 1998 recovered a wide variety of objects, including a Roman coin and brooch, Saxon strap ends and brooches, including a Viking one, medieval and post medieval coins, a medieval pewter badge, jetton and seal matrix, and a post medieval cloth seal.

Images

  • A 10th century gilded bronze disc brooch from Little Snoring with a cross shaped layout and animals depicted between the arms of the cross © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and S. White

Location

Grid Reference:TF 95 32
Map Sheet:TF93SE
Parish:LITTLE SNORING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

5 August 1977.
NAU air photography.
Cropmarks.
Circular enclosure.
D. Edward (NAU), 19 March 1981.

May 1993. Metal detecting.
?Early Saxon Coptic bowl foot.
Middle Saxon strap end, pin, disc brooch (S1, S2 and S5), lozenge-shaped imported Viking brooch.
Medieval and post medieval metalwork and coins.
See file for details and forms.
The Viking brooch is amongst those included in the catalogue that accompanies thesis (S4).
D. Gurney (NLA) 17 May 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2020.

June 1993. Metal detecting.
Late Saxon strap end.
Medieval pewter badge, coin.
Other medieval and post medieval metalwork.
See file for details and coin form.
D. Gurney (NLA), 2 July 1993.

September 1993. Metal detecting.
One Roman, one medieval coin. See forms in file.
Roman terminal.
Late Saxon hasp and cheekpiece.
Medieval metalwork.
Post medieval Norwich cloth seal.
See list in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 23 September 1993.

Before mid-September 1997. Metal detecting.
Roman brooch.
Medieval, post medieval and undated metal objects.
Medieval jetton.
Medieval and post medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 October 1997.

October 1997. Metal detecting.
Medieval strap end, belt mount and mirror case.
Post medieval hooked tag and coin.
See form in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 7 November 1997.

April 1998. Metal detecting.
Early Saxon flat annular brooch.
Medieval seal matrix * SIGILLVM ISABEL BVRT (S3), (S6).
Post medieval coin weight.
See list in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 9 June 1996.

1994 to 1996. Metal detecting.
Flint flakes.
Late Saxon and medieval sherds, medieval coin.
Roman, medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 June 1999.

Undatable artefact, mystery object found before mid-September 1997 may be Late Saxon, a bead or an attachment from a censer. See NHER 36998 (before 7 November 2003).
A. Rogerson (NLA), July 2004.

See [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2020.

Monument Types

  • CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • SITE (Unknown date)

Associated Finds

  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BOWL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • VESSEL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • BEAD (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • CENSER (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • HARNESS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BELL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUTTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DISC (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MIRROR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PILGRIM BADGE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPUR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOX (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BROOCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CANDLE HOLDER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MOULD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • RING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TF9532 B-E.
---Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: White, S.. 1993. Drawing of a Late Saxon gilded bronze disc brooch.. Card. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Unknown. 1993. Rubbing of a Late Saxon gilded bronze disc brooch.. Film. 1:1.
<S3>Illustration: Ashley, S. [Unknown]. Drawing of a medieval seal matrix impression. Paper. 2:1.
<S4>Thesis: Kershaw, J. 2010. Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches, 850-1050. No 7 (Lozenge brooch - Hedeby type).
<S5>Correspondence: Haith, C. 1993. Correspondence about a Middle Saxon disc brooch from NHER 17589. 5 July.
<S6>Article in Serial: Geake, H., Rogerson, A. and Ashley, S. 1999. Medieval Seal Matrices from Norfolk, 1996-1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 353-358. no 25, p 355, fig 1.

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