Record Details
| NHER Number: | 13191 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Medieval seal matrix |
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Summary
A medieval silver seal depicting a depicting shield with three ox heads and 'SIGILL THOME OXWYE' was ploughed up in 1760. It may come from Great Snoring or Stanfield.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | GREAT SNORING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| STANFIELD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1760.
Silver seal ploughed up, depicting shield with three ox heads and 'SIGILL THOME OXWYE'. In 19th century penes Reverend F. H. Barnwell of Bury (St. Edmunds?). Impression in NCM.
Information from (S1).
This is mentioned in (S2) (inside rear cover with impression). (S2) says that (S3) says it was ploughed up near 'Snoring' (but not in NAU copy of Blomefield) but that really it came from Stanfield.
See (S4).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Bolingbroke Collection. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Woodward, S.. [unknown]. Correspondence. Vol 1. |
| <S3> | Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown. |
| <S4> | Serial: December 182. Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman's Magazine. |
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