NHER 21709 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age metal find

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Summary

An Iron Age copper alloy harness fitting was found in 1983.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM09NW
Civil Parish GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1983. Found on plough point, hence scratching.
Bronze terret, simple loop collars vertically grooved; mid 1st century AD according to A. Gregory (NAU). (S1) p.41ff suggests a span from 1st century BC to 2nd century AD; loop distorted but other features agree with her late group. See also two from a hoard at Middlebie, Dunfriess, and a cast bronze example from Suffolk in BM.
See (S2) in file.
See (S3) in the Illustration Library.
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU) and E. B. Green (NCM).
W. F. Milligan (NCM), August 1985.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Monograph: McGregor, M.. 1976. Early Celtic Art in North Britain.. p 41.
  • <S2> Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
  • <S3> Illustration: White, S. 1985. Drawing of an Iron Age terret.. Card. 2:1.
  • HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

May 16 2014 11:22AM

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