Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19576 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Early Saxon cemetery |
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Summary
Early Saxon brooches and other objects have been found on this site, suggesting that it is the site of an Early Saxon cemetery.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Late 1970s. Found with metal detecting. West side of wood and southeast of bungalow
Early Saxon metal objects, suggesting Anglo-Saxon cemetery, but no details known.
Found by [1]
Note that the Wilton Pendant (NHER 5303) was found at Wilton while digging gravel and the wood is very irregular, possibly quarried. This is a possible findspot for it. In October 1983 a water main trench passed about 50m southwest of this spot, no sign of anything.
A. Gregory (NAU) 17 October 1983.
November/December 1995.
3 molten fragments of copper alloy, probably parts of Early Saxon brooches.
All photographed.
Headplate fragment of great square headed brooch, with ?style 1 ornament.
Fragment with curving mouldings, ?side of footplate of great square headed brooch?
Decorated fragment, uncertain motifs.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 29 January 1996.
Monument Types
- CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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