NHER 52706 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting between 2009 and 2022 recovered a Mesolithic flint blade and a number of metal objects, including a Middle Bronze Age palstave, a medieval buckle plate and silver coin brooch and a post-medieval crotal bell.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG13SE
Civil Parish ERPINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

January-February 2009. Metal-detecting.
Found at [1]:
1 Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. See drawing (S1).
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA), see description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 9 March 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 June 2014.

September-October 2011. Metal-detecting.
1 Mesolithic flint blade.
1 medieval buckle.
1 post-medieval crotal bell.
Flint identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other objects by A. Rogerson (HES). See descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 11 November 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 June 2014.

January 2022. Metal-detecting. [2].
Medieval silver coin brooch (made from a gros tournois of Floris V, Count of Holland, 1256-1296).
Information from PAS import.
This coin brooch was submitted for consideration as Treasure (Ref: 2022 T77).
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent mapped at [1].
A. Beckham (HES), 30 March 2022 and P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2024.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2009. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age palstave. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1266 AD to 1296 AD)
  • CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 14 2024 12:34AM

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