Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31423 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period metal finds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1995 recovered a lead weight or spindle whorl, a Roman brooch fragment and some unidentified copper alloy objects. These were found in spoil tips during roadworks for a bypass.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1995. Metal-detecting.
Found with metal detector on spoilheap dumped from construction of A143 Brockdish to Needham bypass. Neither location of spoilheap nor origin of spoil recorded.
1 Lead weight or spindle whorl.
1 Roman bronze dolphin brooch fragment.
Bronze objects.
Attempt will be made to get further information from finders and proper identification.
See report (S1) for further details. This work is also noted in (S2).
S.Bates (NAU) 2 August 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015.
The origin of the objects cannot be more precisely obtained other than that they were from spoil heaps from the roadworks. For full identifications see report in file.
E.Rose (NLA) 25 September 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- WEIGHT (Undated)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: HEL, HEM. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief on the Brockdish - Needham Bypass. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 134. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1996. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1995. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 397-412. p 398. |
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