Record Details

NHER Number:24118
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric worked flint, Roman to post medieval pottery, and Bronze Age, Roman, medieval and post medieval metal objects.

Summary

A Bronze Age blade, Roman coins and pottery, a Roman ring and spoon, medieval coins and pottery, a medieval harness pendant, and other metalwork, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 40 10
Map Sheet:TG41SW
Parish:ACLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

25 September 1987 and October 1987. Surface finds and metal detecting finds from roadworks for new A1064 link and from adjacent pasture field. Contexts 2 to 4 and 6 to 20:
Roman coins, ring and pottery.
Context 5: medieval harness pendant.
A. Gregory, (NAU) 4 and 11 November 1987.

November 1987 context 21 see file.

January 1988, see above.

September 1989. Detector and surface finds.
Roman, Middle Saxon and post medieval sherds,
post medieval metalwork,
Roman bronze spoon, Roman coins.
Inf [1]. D. Gurney, (NAU) 5 October 1989

June 1991.
Roman pottery, coins, spearhead.
D. Gurney, (NLA) 7 July 1991

1991.
Roman sherds found.
W. Milligan, (NCM) 19 September 1991

1993. Metal detecting finds.
Bronze Age blade, (S1).
Roman coins and pottery.
Medieval coins, pottery and metalwork.
J. Davies (NCM) 2 November 1993.

January/February 1994.
2 Roman coins.
See list in file.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM). A.Rogerson (NLA) 3 June 1995.

29 August 1996.
Finds of Roman, Late Saxon, medieval sherds and millstone.
See letter in file.
E.Rose (NLA) 12 November 1996.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to 19th Century - 651 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • MILLSTONE (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • DAGGER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • RAPIER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPEAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPOON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988. Roman find on bypass site. 11 January.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Photograph: EGA 19-20 (harness pendant), EGA 21-24 RB ring).
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
<S1>Illustration: Davis, J.A.. 1993. Drawing of a Bronze Age blade.. Paper. 1:1.

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