NHER 16294 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG23NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | MUNDESLEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
July 1980. Ingleside Hotel.
In vegetable garden, below crest of gentle slope to east. Dug up from about 300mm deep.
Iron spearhead of Swanton type E3, (S1).
Further details and x-rays in file.
Information from M. Warren (Cromer Museum) via A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 14 July 1980.
15 July 1980.
Site visited by A. Rogerson.
Spearhead had been found with point upwards facing northwest. At findspot was found a fragment of iron sheet (from above flange of shield boss? But 24cm diameter too great).
Also iron strip fragment, surviving length 53mm, width 20mm.
Bodysherd, hard, occasional organic elongated inclusions, varying deep pink to grey, undatable.
8m west of findspot, one body sherd flint gritted prehistoric pot and two flint flakes.
10m north, one post medieval sherd, red with brown exterior and spotted glaze.
Spearhead to be donated too?
A. Rogerson (NAU), 16 July 1980.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF82360 Unpublished Document: Yardley, C. J. 2011. The Mun Valley: Historic landscape Assessment and Landscape Character Assessment for Norfolk Coast Project. p 16.
- <S1> SNF91311 Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of an Early Saxon spearhead.. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (6)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SHIELD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- SPEAR (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
May 16 2014 1:53PM