Record Details

NHER Number:39736
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Saxon backwards looking beast brooch and finger ring, post medieval cauldron fragment

Summary

Metal detecting in 2003 and 2004 recovered a possible Middle Saxon or Late Saxon copper alloy backwards-looking beast disc brooch, a Late Saxon finger ring, and a fragment of a post medieval iron cauldron.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 92 96
Map Sheet:TL99NW
Parish:THOMPSON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Before late August 2003.
?Middle Saxon/Late Saxon copper alloy backwards looking beast disc brooch.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 21 September 2003.

Before 20 May 2004. Metal detecting.
Late Saxon finger ring and post medieval cauldron.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 July 2004.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • CAULDRON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Photograph: 2003. KTW 17-20, Middle/Late Saxon disc brooch with back looking beast..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

Related records - none

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