NHER 30318 (Find Spot) - Roman hair pin, medieval key
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG23NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | THORPE MARKET, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Full Description
THE CROPMARKS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOW RECORDED AS NHER 38893.
July 1989. NAU aerial photography.
Linear cropmarks.
D. Edwards (NAU).
February to March 2000. Metal detecting. [1].
?Roman possible hairpin. The object has a rounded conical head above a narrow waist, with a disc below. Below the disc is a circular-section shaft which ends at a corroded ?break. It is not dissimilar to one of Cool's Group Two ('knob on cordon' heads) but the 'cordon' is very sharp. It also reminds me of a small drawer handle, with the 'cordon' there to prevent the shaft being driven too far into the wood.
Medieval Incomplete copper alloy key of LMMC (Late Medieval Metal Corpus) Type VI (S1). The openwork bow is largely missing, but was probably lozenge shaped with a central ?cross shape and circles in the angles of the cross. The bow is hollow and the bit is chunky with deep cuts. These are dated by LMMC to the 14th or 15th century.
Identifications by H. Geake (NCM).
K. Hinds (NLA), 13 April 2000.
January-March 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
Post-medieval crotal bell.
H. Mellor (HES), 20 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 4 July 2017.
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (3)
- HAIR PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CROTAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
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Record last edited
Feb 17 2020 10:14AM