Record Details
| NHER Number: | 28227 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced multi-period finds (Fincham, poorly located) |
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Summary
Metal-detecting between before 1990 and 2019 recovered Roman and medieval pottery sherds; Roman coins and medieval and post-medieval tokens; and undated, Early Bronze Age to Early Saxon and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include undated unidentified objects; an Early Bronze Age ear ring and finger ring; a Bronze Age to Iron Age razor; Roman bowl and bucket fragments, brooches, a finger ring, bracelet, strap fitting, unidentified object, ear ring and steelyard weight; an Early Saxon brooch; a Late Saxon spindle whorl and strap fitting; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval cauldron fragment, furniture fitting, and purse fragment; and post-medieval unidentified objects, a book fitting, coin weight, dress hook, knife fragment and spur fragment.
These finds are from Fincham parish but no accurate locational information is available.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Parish: | FINCHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
The following finds are from Fincham but no accurate locational informational available.
Pre 1990. Found with metal detecting. 'From around Fincham but mostly from the western side'. [1].
Roman and medieval pottery.
Bronze Age/Iron Age copper alloy razor, (S1).
Roman coins, brooches, finger rings, belt fitting, a snake bracelet, and other Roman metalwork.
An Early Saxon brooch.
Late Saxon strap ends, a spindle whorl and part of a horse harness bit.
Medieval and post medieval and undatd copper alloy and lead objects, coins, tokens, jettons and weights.
Full lists in file.
W. Milligan (NCM) 8 August 1990.
November 2018-December 2019. Metal-detecting. [2].
NMD012019 - PAS details to follow.
The exact location of the findspot is unknown.
A. Beckham (HES), 28 January 2019.
September 2019. Metal-detecting. [3].
Roman brooch.
Information from PAS import.
Found at [4].
E. McDonald (HES), 2 June 2020.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- EAR RING (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINGER RING (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAZOR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAZOR (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BOWL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BUCKET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- EAR RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STEELYARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 75 AD to 175 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- HARNESS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- KNIFE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Davies, J. A. 1990. Drawing fo a Bronze Age/Iron Age copper alloy razor.. Paper. 2:1. |
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