Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24349 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic scraper and Roman coins |
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Summary
Metal detecting and fieldwalking in 1987 recovered a Neolithic flint scraper and Roman coins, one of which had possibly been turned into a button.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 30 03 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | ROCKLAND ST MARY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 1987. Fieldwalking and metal detecting. Southwest corner of orchard, south of Bullockshed Lan.
Neolithic end scraper. Identified by J. Wymer (NAU).
Five coins: miscast irregular copy of late 3rd century Antoninianus. Manufactured ?on site. (S1).
Antoninianus Carausius PAX AVG AD 287-93.
Follis Cripus, BEATA TRANQVILLITAS AD 320-3.
House of Constantine GEI AD 335-40.
Roman 4th century? Coin, turned into button?
Bronze object with rivet. (S1).
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 4 January 1988.
1989. Metal detecting.
Bronze pin with mid stem swelling of shaft. (S1) NCM. Finder [1].
W. Milligan (NCM), 9 June 1989.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 1000000 BC to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- PIN (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BUTTON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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