Record Details

NHER Number:31086
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Medieval and post medieval finds

Summary

Metal-detecting between 1994 and 2015 recovered Late Iron Age/Roman, Roman, medieval and post-medieval coins; post-medieval tokens and jettons and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include medieval to post-medieval dress accessories and lead weights; a medieval casket key, spindle whorl, copper alloy vessel fragment, copper alloy cross, harness mount and a marvellous example of an enamelled horse harness pendant; medieval/post-medieval casket keys and a copper alloy vessel fragment and post-medieval crotal bells, a saddle pommel, seal matrix, cloth seal, copper alloy weight, possible tap handle, coin weight, book clasp, furniture escutcheon plate and an elaborate lock plate and mechanism from a padlock.

Images

  • Medieval harness mount from NHER 31086  © Norfolk County Council
  • Medieval cross from NHER 31086  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 19 21
Map Sheet:TG12SE
Parish:HEVINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Part of large scatter along with NHER 33248.

October/November 1994. Metal detected find. [2].
?Early post medieval, elaborate shield-shaped lock-plate with mechanism/workings on reverse. Three attachment holes with rings around.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 December 1994.

22 September 2003. Metal detecting. Discovery Tours Field 22. Site extended to include NHER 33098. Previously centred [1].
Three medieval and three post medieval coins. One post medieval token and jetton.
Medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 July 2004.

11 August 2004. Metal detecting. Discovery Tours Field 27.
Two Roman, one medieval and five post medieval coins.
Medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 February 2006.

May - June 2007. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval coin.
1 post-medieval ?tap handle.
Coin identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other object by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 July 2007.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 3 March 2014.

August 2008. Metal detecting.
Medieval/Post-Medieval lead weight.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 October 2008.

October-November 2015. Metal-detecting. [3].
1 Late Iron Age/Roman coin.
?medieval copper alloy cross.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment.
4 post-medieval coins, a cloth seal, lead weight and a furniture escutcheon plate.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 December 2015.

December 2015-January 2016. Metal-detecting. [4].
Medieval harness mount.
1 post-medieval coin, 2 jettons and 2 tokens.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 March 2016.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • 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

  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
  • COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 37 AD to 260 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1400 AD)
  • CROSS (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • DRESS FASTENER (DRESS) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • LACE TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • LOCKING MECHANISM (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SADDLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TAP (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (16th Century - 1550 AD to 1584 AD)
  • JETTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1586 AD to 1635 AD)
  • CLOTH SEAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • WEIGHT (17th Century - 1603 AD to 1625 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1604 AD to 1604 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1614 AD to 1634 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1634 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1636 AD to 1644 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (17th Century to 18th Century - 1660 AD to 1730 AD)
  • TOKEN (17th Century - 1666 AD to 1666 AD)
  • TOKEN (17th Century - 1667 AD to 1667 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Finder's Map..

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33248Parent of: Multi-period finds (Find Spot)
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