NHER 23962 (Find Spot record) - Roman inscribed clay disc [Poorly Located, Attleborough]

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Summary

Before 1847 a Roman inscribed clay disc was found in Attleborough parish. The exact location and nature of its discovery are uncertain.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish ATTLEBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre-Summer 1847. Casual Find.
An inscribed Roman disc from Attleborough was exhibited at a temporary museum formed during the annual summer meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Norwich (S2).
The object was described as "A small disc or tessera of baked clay, about one sixth of an inch in thickness; diameter, 3 in. … One side is marked with diagonal lines, forming a cross, and the letters S.C.V.R. On the other aer the letters H. IMP. …(XP?)".
Reported in monograph (S2).
Also note in journal article (S3).
Information from HER Record Card (S1), which also references Ordnance Survey record cards.
Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 28 January 2025.

No find like this previously recorded from Attleborough but artefact sounds familiar - may one found in a village nearby.
Information from HER Record Card (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 21 August 1987.

  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2> Article in Monograph: 1851. Catalogue of Antiquities. Exhibited in the Museum formed during the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute, held at Norwich, in 1847. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City. Archaeological Institute. pp xxiii-lvi. p xxviii.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Watkin, W. T. 1876. On a "Tabula Honestse Missionis" found at Bath, and some other neglected Britanno Roman Inscription. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XXXIII pp 250-270. p 263.
  • <S4> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Records / Pastscape.
  • DISC (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2025 5:54PM

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