NHER 5708 (Find Spot record) - Roman or Saxon metal find
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL88NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1904. North east of Mickle Hill Tumulus. A bronze mount, rosette shaped attachment plate of Teutonic inspiration perhaps from hanging bowl (or sporran from kilt. R. R. Clarke NCM). Date about 375 A.D. on basis of Dorchester burial. See (S2).
(S1), (S2), (S3), (S4) called Norwich, date this to 450-500 , (S5) dates it to before 450, (S6) (marked on map), (S7), (S8), (S9), (S10).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Copy (S7) in file.
Associated Sources (12)
- --- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Croxton.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 NE 6.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF1374 Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. p 57; No 517.
- <S2> SNF1301 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1907. Some Recent Finds in Norfolk. Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany. Second Series Pt 2 pp 1-9. pp 1-4.
- <S3> SNF4873 Monograph: Brown, G. B. 1915. Saxon Art and Industry in the Pagan Period. The Arts in Early England. Vol IV. pp 558, 524, 796.
- <S4> SNF4271 Publication: Aberg, N. 1926. The Anglo-Saxons in England. pp 12-13.
- <S5> SNF6369 Serial: Hodgkin, R.H.. 1935. A history of the Anglo-Saxons.. Vol I p 108-9. pp 108-109.
- <S6> SNF1959 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. and Myres, J. N. L. 1939. Norfolk in the Dark Ages, 400-800 A.D., Part I. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVII, Pt II pp 163- 214. p 175.
- <S7> SNF6340 Article in Serial: Hawkes, S. C. and Dunning, G. C. 1962. Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century. With a Catalogue of Animal-Ornamented Buckles and Related Belt-Fittings. Medieval Archaeology. Vol V (for 1961) pp 1-70.
- <S7> SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (6)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HANGING BOWL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- DRESS COMPONENT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- HANGING BOWL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
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Record last edited
Aug 19 2020 10:20PM