Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24892 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi - period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking and metal detecting in 1988 recovered prehistoric worked flints, a piece of prehistoric hammerstone, fragments of medieval pottery and a medieval gilt belt plate with a surviving piece of textile attached.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 15 85 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM18NE |
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| Parish: | GISSING, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Along north side strip of woodland. Fieldwalking and metal detecting.
13th century gilt belt plate with five rivets, one missing and a little textile. (S1).
Two sherds both green glazed Grimston.
Worked flint.
Four flakes, one possibly a scraper and broken hammerstone (J. Wymer NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 12 October 1988.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TEXTILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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