Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37475 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman seal box lid |
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Summary
A Roman seal box lid with traces of decayed enamel found during metal detecting.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 47 12 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41SE |
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| Parish: | MAUTBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Field contains NHER 37425.
July 2002. Metal detecting.
Roman copper alloy gilt seal box lid, very corroded, pointed oval, pierced lug for hinge opposite broken location lug, whitish-green oval of decayed enamel within broad gilded border, 21 x 34mm. Compare with examples in (S1). ?2-3rd century AD.
Identified by S.J. Ashley (NLA), 28 August 2002.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 September 2002.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- SEAL BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Crummy, N.. 1983. The Roman Small Finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9.. Colchester Archaeology. No 4618. Nos 103-104. |
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