Record Details
NHER Number: | 32143 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Possible Iron Age linch pin and medieval/post medieval buckle |
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Summary
Metal detecting in this area during 1996 recovered part of a possible Iron Age linch pin and a fragment of a 15th or 16th century buckle frame.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 73 25 |
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Map Sheet: | TF72NW |
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Parish: | HILLINGTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
3 October 1996. Metal detecting.
Remains of rather bent double-looped buckle frame. 15th/16th century.
Bronze knob with iron shank. Knob is of sugar-loaf shape; shank, rectangular in section, protruding from base and apex of knob; raised ridge around outer edge of base. ?From Iron Age linch pin.
Polaroid (S1) taken by NCM.
Identified by H. Geake (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 November 1996.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LINCH PIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- LINCH PIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 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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