Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5019 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Prehistoric flints, post-medieval gunflints and pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods have been found on this site since the 1940s. Metal-detecting in 2015 recovered an undatable honestone; further late prehistoric worked flint; further Late Iron Age, Roman, Middle Saxon, and medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman, Middle Saxon and medieval coins; medieval roof tile fragments and Late Iron Age to Early Saxon and Late Saxon to medieval metal objects. The metal finds include an Iron Age/Roman unidentified copper alloy object; a Roman key; an Early Saxon brooch, a Late Saxon/medieval sword quillon; and medieval brooches and a thimble.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89NW |
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| Parish: | HILBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1941 to 1946. Near Church.
Iron Age sherds with smoothed surface.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)
1941 to 1946. South of All Saint's Church.
Roman sherds.
Ipswich ware sherds.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)
1957. South of church.
1 sherd of probable Early Saxon pottery.
Reported in (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)
1941 to 1946. From field south of church.
Sherds of Thetford Ware and medieval sherds.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)
1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking over field extended area.
Prehistoric flints and post medieval gun flints.
Roman, possible Middle Saxon, Thetford, medieval and post medieval sherds.
See file under NHER 24669.
E. Rose (NAU) 9 August 1988.
May 2015. Metal-detecting. [2].
Iron Age/Roman unidentified copper alloy object.
7 Roman coins and a key.
Early Saxon brooch.
4 medieval coins and a brooch.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 July 2015.
May-June 2015. Metal-detecting. [3].
Undated honestone.
Late prehistoric flint borer.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake.
1 Late Iron Age pottery sherd.
6 Roman pottery sherds.
1 Middle Saxon coin and a pottery sherd.
Late Saxon/medieval sword quillon.
1 medieval coin, 3 pottery sherd, 2 roof tile fragments, a brooch and a thimble.
1 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
1 post-medieval pottery sherd.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 August 2015. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 4 May 2017.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 4000 BC to 401 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- WHETSTONE (Unknown date)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Early Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 4000 BC to 401 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- MOUNT (Middle Iron Age - 300 BC to 200 BC)
- POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 150 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 268 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 286 AD to 293 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 340 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 337 AD to 340 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 355 AD to 361 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 375 AD to 378 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 480 AD to 600 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- COIN (Middle Saxon - 710 AD to 750 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 720 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- SWORD (Late Saxon to Medieval - 900 AD to 1100 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1100 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1189 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1282 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1286 AD)
- THIMBLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1305 AD to 1310 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1400 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1369 AD to 1377 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1422 AD to 1461 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 89 NW 12. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Hilborough. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Hilborough. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Hilborough. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Late Saxon. Hilborough. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Hilborough. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Middle Saxon. Hilborough. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Wake, T. 1942. Some Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVIII Pt I pp 23-30. p 27. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 3. |
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