Record Details

NHER Number:7480
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age terret

Summary

An Iron Age enamelled bronze terret was found in a well at the Woodrow Inn in 1854.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 153 241
Map Sheet:TG12SE
Parish:CAWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1854. Stray find.
Enamelled bronze terret of Iron Age type found in well at the Woodrow Inn. Decorated on each side with spots of red enamel in countersunk recesses (with small hole pierced through in centre), and with zones of punched decoration defined by curved lines. 1st century AD. Deposited in the Norwich Castle Museum NCM 76.94 (734).
Information from Norwich Castle Museum Record Cards (S1) and (S2). Also recorded on Norfolk Archaeological Unit Record Card (S3).
Included in the Fitch Collection Catalogue (S4).
Noted in the Archaeological Journal (S5).
See also illustration (S6).
Updated H. Hamilton (HES), 14 November 2017.

November 1987. Site Visit.
Well located by E. Rose, under manhole directly north of building. Marked on detailed site plan in file under 24191.
E. Rose (NAU), 30 November 1987.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Cawston.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Cawston.
<S3>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S4>Publication: 1909. Fitch Coll. Catalogue. p.47 no.489. 1909.47 no 439.
<S5>Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 98; Fig 12.3.
<S6>Illustration: Unknown. 1987. Drawing of a Iron Age enamelled coper alloy terret .. Card. 2:1.

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