Record Details

NHER Number:19383
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Medieval to post-medieval finds

Summary

Metal-detecting in 1981 and 2016 recovered medieval to post-medieval coins as well as a medieval hooked bar-mount from a harness and gold ring decorated with an inscription and a depiction of the Virgin and Child and a post-medieval buckle and harness mount.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TG41NE
Parish:MARTHAM, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

September 1981. [1].
15th century iconographic gold ring showing Virgin and Child on bezel. Worn French? inscription on the spiral loop. Letters alternating with foliage. Probably originally enamelled.
See (S1 and S2).
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) and John Cherry (BM).
S. Margeson (NCM) July 1983.

September-November 2016. Metal-detecting. [1].
7 medieval coins and a hooked bar-mount from a harness.
1 medieval/post-medieval coin.
6 post-medieval coins, a buckle and harness mount.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 15 December 2016.

(S3) - PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 25 November 2019.

Monument Types

  • 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

  • RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1185 AD to 1189 AD)
  • HARNESS HOOK (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1290 AD to 1291 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1306 AD to 1307 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1306 AD to 1307 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1352 AD to 1353 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1427 AD to 1430 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval to 17th Century - 1489 AD to 1604 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1509 AD to 1526 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century to 17th Century - 1544 AD to 1649 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1561 AD to 1582 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1573 AD to 1575 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century to 17th Century - 1582 AD to 1603 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1680 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1628 AD to 1629 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1687 AD to 1687 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Unknown. 1983. Drawing of a medieval gold ring with the Virgin and Child.. Paper. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Unknown. 1983. Drawing of a medieval gold ring with the Virgin and Child.. Paper. 2:1.
<S3>Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2016. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age axe fragment. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.

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