Record Details

NHER Number:42547
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age, medieval and post-medieval finds

Summary

Metal-detecting in 2005 and 2015 recovered part of a Bronze Age rapier, a medieval buckle and a post-medieval belt mount.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 03 98
Map Sheet:TM09NW
Parish:GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

August-September 2005. Metal-detecting.
1 Middle-Late Bronze Age flat-rib rapier fragment (S1).
1 post-medieval hooked belt mount.
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 October 2005.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 27 March 2014.

June-July 2015. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval buckle.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 October 2015.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of a Middle/Late Saxon flat-rib rapier.. Film. 1:1.

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