Record Details

NHER Number:23408
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Saxon pendant

Summary

Metal detecting in 1987 recovered an Early Saxon gilded copper alloy pendant.

Images

  • An Early Saxon gilded pendant from Rockland St Mary.  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:TG 30 03
Map Sheet:TG30SW
Parish:ROCKLAND ST MARY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1 February 1987. Metal detecting. In former orchard south of Bullockshed Lane.
Gilt bronze pendant, 6th century AD.
Drawn (S1) NAU. Photograph (S2) NCM.
Identified by E. B. Green (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM) 2 February 1987.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)

Associated Finds

  • PENDANT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 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: Penn, K.. 1987. Drawing of an Early Saxon gilded copper alloy pendant.. Film. 2:1.
<S2>Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.

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