NHER 28215 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period metal objects, coins and pottery sherds

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Summary

Metal detecting in this area between 1991 and 2018 recovered undated, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds, Roman and medieval coins; aswell as Roman, Early Saxon and Middle Saxon metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman unidentified object; an Early Saxon unidentified object and a sleeve clasp; an Early/Middle Saxon mounts; Middle Saxon brooches; and a medieval seal matrix and unidenfitified object.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG00NE
Civil Parish	BARNHAM BROOM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Early 1991. Metal detecting. Found in area including sites NHER 17921, NHER 18258 and NHER 25756.
Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval pottery.
Middle Saxon, Early Saxon and Roman metalwork.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 19 March and 30 May 1991.

1992. Metal detecting.
Roman coin.
Medieval seal. See photograph (S1).
W. Milligan (NCM) 10 November 1992.

July-September 2017. Metal-detecting. [1]
1 Roman coin.
Early/Middle Saxon sleeve clasp and two gilt copper alloy mounts, one in the form of a fish (S4), the other a fish caught between two two birds (S2).
7 medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 December 2017.

(S3) - PAS details to follow.
J. Richards (HES), 14 September 2018.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF86993 Photograph: 1991. LBP 13-18, Middle Saxon brooches..
--- SNF86995 Photograph: 1991. LBP 22-24, Cruciform bracket fragment..
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
<S2> SNF98642 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of an early medieval mount in the form of a fish caught between two birds. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
<S3> SNF99683 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of an Early Anglo-Saxon gusset plate. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
<S4> SNF99684 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of early medieval mount in the form of a fish. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (23)

POT (Undated)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 321 AD to 321 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
SLEEVE CLASP (Early Saxon - 480 AD to 530 AD)
MOUNT (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 550 AD to 700 AD)
MOUNT (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 600 AD to 700 AD)
BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1222 AD to 1236 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1310 AD to 1314 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1344 AD to 1351 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1400 AD to 1413 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1427 AD to 1461 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1466 AD to 1483 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)