NHER 43112 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal detecting in 2005 recovered a range of objects including a prehistoric flint scraper, a Neolithic polished flint axehead, Roman, medieval and post medieval coins and a Late Saxon disc brooch.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG01NE
Civil Parish	LYNG, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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November-December 2005. metal-detecting rally.
1 Late Prehistoric flint ?scraper.
1 Neolithic polished flint axehead fragment.
6 Roman coins and 1 tinned brooch (Polden hill-type).
1 Late Saxon nummular disc brooch (S1). [1]
1 medieval coin.
3 medieval/post-medieval metal working scrap fragments.
1 post-medieval coin.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM), coins by A. Marsden (NLA), disc brooch by A. Cattermole (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 December 2005 and 16 January 2006.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 3 April 2014.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF75313 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of a Late Saxon disc brooch.. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (9)

POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)