Record Details

NHER Number:28740
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age brooch and Late Saxon to early medieval strap fitting

Summary

Metal detecting recovered an Iron Age brooch and a Late Saxon to early medieval strap fitting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 83 17
Map Sheet:TF81NW
Parish:LEXHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1991 or before. Found with metal detecting.
Late Saxon/early medieval strap end, (S1).
Iron Age brooch, (S2).
See description in file.
Finder states landowner would not allow him to reveal findspot (1991), but grid reference supplied for Iron Age brooch 1992 - is it correct for strap end also?
Information from Suffolk Sites and Monuments Recrod.
E. Rose (NLA), 16 January 1992.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Illustration: Rose, E.. 1992. Drawing of a Late Saxon/Early medieval strap fitting.. Paper. 2:1.
<S2>Illustration: Rose, E.. 1992. Drawing of an Iron Age brooch.. Paper. 2:1.

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