Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31906 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1996 recovered Saxon strap ends, a medieval finger ring, medieval buckles and a seal matrix. A fieldwalking survey undertaken in 2010 recovered medieval and post-medieval pottery and an assemblage of struck flint of Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date including flakes, blades and scrapers.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 87 85 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL88NE |
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| Parish: | CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1996.Metal detecting.
Found in area centred at [1] (now Context 1):
Middle Saxon strap end.
Late Saxon strap end.
Medieval finger ring, buckles, seal matrix.
See list in file.
D.Gurney (NLA) 19 April 1996.
January-May 2010. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey of proposed development area (Field 6).
The survey revealed medieval and post-medieval pottery and an assemblage of struck flint of Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date including flakes, blades and scrapers.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
Previously recorded under NHER 55879.
S. Howard (HES), 8 August 2011.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
- STRAP FITTING (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINGER RING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Wolframm-Murray, Y. 2010. Archaeological fieldwalking, metal detecting and geophysical surveys of land at the north of Thetford, Norfolk (Volumes 1 and 2). Northamptonshire Archaeology. 10/159. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D., Bown, J. and Hoggett, R. 2011. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2010. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLVI Pt II pp 262-276. p 273. |
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