NHER 56905 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting between 2012 and 2020 recovered Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints including scrapers, retouched flakes, blades and flakes; Iron Age, Roman and Late Saxon pottery sherds; medieval coins and a jetton and several other, Late Iron Age/Roman, Early Saxon and medieval to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include an unidentified copper alloy object of probable Late Iron Age/Roman date; Early Saxon gold bracteate; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel leg and foot and part of a post-medieval buckle.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG20SE
Civil Parish	BROOKE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full Description

February-March 2012. Metal-detecting.
2 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scrapers, 2 retouched flakes, 2 blades and 2 flakes.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
2 Roman pottery sherds.
2 Late Saxon pottery sherds.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel leg and foot.
Post-medieval buckle.
See lists in file.
Recorded on PAS database:
4 medieval coins and 1 jetton.
Information from PAS import.
A. Marsden (HES), 16 October 2012 and A. Rogerson (HES), 15 January 2013. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2023.

October 2019. Metal-detecting. [1].
Early Saxon gold sheet C-bracteate (S1).
Information from PAS import.
This gold bracteate was declared Treasure at inquest (Ref: 2019 T914) and subsequently acquired by Norwich Castle Museum.
A. Beckham (HES), 16 October 2019 and P. Watkins (HES), 12 September 2023. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 March 2024.

January 2020. Metal-detecting. [2].
Late Iron Age/Roman copper alloy unidentified object.
1 medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 12 September 2023 and 13 October 2024.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF101102 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2020. Drawing of an Early Saxon bracteate. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (9)

Object Types (17)

BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 50 BC to 100 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BRACTEATE (Early Saxon - 480 AD to 530 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1204 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1254 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1280 AD to 1281 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1299 AD to 1301 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1351 AD to 1399 AD)
JETTON (Medieval - 1415 AD to 1437 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Feb 22 2025 6:58PM