NHER 56961 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting in 2012 and 2013 recovered a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scraper and flint flake; Iron Age Roman and post-medieval coins; medieval and post-medieval jettons and Roman to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include Roman brooches, a medieval/post-medieval purse bar and a post-medieval mount from a belt or harness, rowel spur, buckle and scissors.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG20SE
Civil Parish	PORINGLAND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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October-November 2012. Metal-detecting. [1].
Neolithic/Bronze Age scraper on a secondary flake.
Roman copper alloy Langton Down brooch.
One medieval jetton.
Medieval/post-medieval purse bar.
One post-medieval coin, one jetton and a mount from a belt or harness.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 January 2013.

February 2013. Metal-detecting. [2].
Iron Age incomplete button-and-loop fastener (S1).
1 Roman coin and brooches.
1 post-medieval coin and scissors.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 May 2013.

March-April 2013. Metal-detecting. [3].
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake.
Post-medieval rowel spur and buckle.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2013.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
<S1> SNF89323 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2013. Incomplete Iron Age copper alloy button-and-loop fastener. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (16)

FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 75 AD)
BROOCH (Roman - 55 AD to 80 AD)
COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 161 AD)
JETTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1497 AD to 1521 AD)
PURSE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1550 AD)
ROWEL SPUR (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
COIN (16th Century - 1582 AD to 1599 AD)
SCISSORS (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
STRAP FITTING (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
JETTON (17th Century - 1612 AD to 1651 AD)
BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1690 AD)
COIN (17th Century - 1690 AD to 1690 AD)

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Record last edited

Dec 23 2013 3:28PM