NHER 15540 (Monument record) - Possible Bronze Age ring ditch and multi-period metal objects
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF60SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1976. Ordnance Survey aerial photograph.
Cropmarks of ring ditch 17m in diameter.
Site identified by King's Lynn Office of Ordnance Survey, reported by (S1) and photography inspected by D. Edwards (NAU).
See Unit 6in scale map overlays.
D. Edwards (NAU) 8 December 1979.
1987. Found at this site, or at NHER 16160.
1) Late Iron Age/early Roman terret (compare to NHER 9382)
2) Possible 4th century coin
3) 15th/16th century bronze circular buckle. Five decorated 'lobes', tongue missing.
4) Medieval bronze purse-bar with swivel loop. See for comparison LMMC type B1.
5) 13th century bronze ring brooch, set with two bosses containing white paste (possibly once had glass pellets). Eight tiny pins set regularly between the two bosses; pin looped through hole in ring.
6) Medieval D-shaped buckle frame.
All Polaroid NCM, except coin.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) 11 July 1990.
Polaroids of medieval objects (S1) in file.
E. Rose
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF47890 Aerial Photograph: OS 76-101-348.
- --- SNF10793 Aerial Photograph: OS AP 76 101 349.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF51667 Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (8)
- HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HARNESS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jul 3 2018 9:15AM