Record Details
| NHER Number: | 40429 |
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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 2004 recovered a Roman coin and an elaborate post-medieval harness mount. Fieldwalking in 2008 recovered Mesolithic/Early Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints; a medieval/post-medieval brick and post-medieval pottery sherds and clay tobacco pipe stem fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 21 01 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20SW |
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| Parish: | SWAINSTHORPE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February/March 2004. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman coin.
1 post-medieval elaborate harness mount (S1).
Coin identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and mount by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 April 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.
Fieldwalking 2008. Systematic fieldwalking survey. Site extended - previous extent [1].
Fieldwalking by Caistor Research Project (CRP 5 Field 16):
1 undatable prehistoric retouched flint flake and 1 flake.
1 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint core.
1 medieval/post-medieval brick.
14 post-medieval pottery sherds (late post-medieval, Glazed Red Earthenware and Staffordshire combed slipware) and 2 clay tobacco pipe stem fragments.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other objects by A. Rogerson (NLA). See list in file.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 September 2008. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRICK (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: 2004. KVG 12, Post Medieval gilt harness mount.. |
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