NHER 13696 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period metal and pottery finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
March 1978. On ploughed surface.
3 body sherds of coarse hard hand-made pottery with many flint inclusions. Neolithic?
Also Roman mortarium sherd, rim sherd Gallo-Belgic derived platter, coarse storage jar sherd made into loomweight, plus one other.
All late 1st century?
28 February 1988. Fieldwalking.
Iron Age flint gritted sherd.
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM) 7 March 1988.
6 and 19 March 1988. Metal detecting and fieldwalking.
Bronze Age sword hilt fragment, and gritty sherds Bronze Age-Iron Age - 16 in all - probably Iron Age (A. Gregory, NCM). Also one Iron Age or Neolithic.
Thetford type and St Neots ware.
Early medieval wares and rim and handle of iron cauldron.
Also a small bronze ring, undated.
Plus Roman 1st-2nd century sherds and late shell-gritted.
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM) 28 March 1988.
'sword hilt' reidentified as rapier.
Information from W. Milligan (NCM), (S1)
13 November 1992. Metal detecting.
Late Bronze Age awl, (S2 and S3) .
Bronze fragment, unknown date/use.
4th century coin. See list in file. Identified by J.Davies (NCM) 20 January 1993.
W.Milligan (NCM) 21 June 1994.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF91324 Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Bronze Age rapier fragment.. Paper. Unknown.
- <S2> SNF91325 Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Bronze Age awl.. Paper. 1:1.
- <S3> SNF91326 Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Bronze Age awl.. Paper. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (13)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAPIER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- RING (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Aug 21 2015 5:49PM