Record Details

NHER Number:43133
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age metal find

Summary

Nine Bronze Age gold rings threaded onto one large gold ring were found during the digging of a soakaway in 2004.

Images

  • A set of Bronze Age gold rings threaded onto one large gold ring found in Gresham  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TG13NE
Parish:GRESHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 2004. Stray Find.
Casual find in newly created soakaway on verge:
Seven composite and two simple gold rings threaded onto one large gold ring. Middle Bronze Age.
Declared Treasure June 2004 and subsequently acquired by Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2005.517).
See description, (S1) and (S2) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 January 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2020.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PENDANT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • RING (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Unpublished Document: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 2006. Treasure Annual Report 2004. pp 22-23; No 6; Fig 6.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2009. EDP2 Feature. 21 December.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Finder's Map..
<S2>Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.

Related records - none

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