Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29389 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Saxon mount |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered an Early Saxon circular mount made from a Roman coin.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 85 37 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF83NE |
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| Parish: | NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1993. Detector find.
Early Saxon discoidal mount made from Roman coin (1st/2nd century as). Two triangular areas on reverse where surface has been cut away to solder on attachment fittings. Obverse has border with double contour line. Inside, a sunken circular field containing chip-carved ornament, gilded. Ornament consists of three concentric circles around a central boss with a punched dot in the centre. Around it four leaf-shaped motifs which cross the three circles.
To be photographed.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM)
D. Gurney (NLA), 5 February 1993.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman to Early Saxon - 43 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BOX (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- HARNESS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: LRF 6-7, Early Saxon gilt copper alloy mount.. |
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