Record Details

NHER Number:23704
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Roman coins, a Roman brooch, a Middle Saxon Northumbrian coin, a medieval token, a post medieval token and a post medieval brooch found during metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TG41SE
Parish:MAUTBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

January to March 1987. Found with metal detecting.
Context 1, English jetton copying coin of Edward III.
Context 2, Roman coin, Constantinopolis, Victory on prow, AD 330-7.
Plan of exact findspots in file.
A. Gregory (NAU) 9 April 1987.
E. Rose (NAU) 28 May 1987.

Summer 1987. Additional metal detecting finds.
Context 2 within yards of previous coin: coin of Magnentius, SALVS DD NN AVG DAES mm PAR, Arles AD 351-3.
A. Gregory (NAU) 6 October 1987.

January 1990. Metal detecting finds.
Northumbrian styca, EANRED. Polaroid NCM. Report in file.
Early Saxon unusual long brooch foot, Break very smooth, (S1)
Also post medieval brooch ?19th century; Nuremberg token (late 16th /early 17th century).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) and M. Blackburn.
D. Gurney (NLA) 27 March 1990

Unusual Early Saxon brooch re-identified by HMC as Roman. 2nd century AD.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 28 July 1999.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • COIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: POL9-10.
---Map: Finder's Map..
---Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Penn, K.. 1990. Drawing of an Early Saxon unusual long brooch foot.. Film. 2:1.

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