NHER 62626 (Find Spot record) - Late Iron Age/Roman coin and cosmetic mortar

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Summary

Metal-detecting in 2018 recovered a Late Iron Age/Roman coin and a Late Iron Age/Roman cosmetic mortar.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF81SE
Civil Parish KEMPSTONE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
Civil Parish BEESTON WITH BITTERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 173).
No finds of archaeological interest were recovered at this location.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 August 2023.

January-April 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
Late Iron Age/Roman cosmetic mortar decorated with a line of punched dots and devolved zoomorphic heads (S2).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 May 2018.

January-May 2018. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 Late Iron Age/Roman coin, a worn Roman sestertius of an unknown ruler.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 October 2018.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015. Archaeological Non-intrusive Survey Report: Geophysical Survey by Magnetometry, Fieldwalking and Metal Detecting for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Electrical Connection, Norfolk. Allen Archaeology Ltd. AAL 2014060.
  • <S2> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of an Iron Age/Romano British cosmetic mortar. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
  • COSMETIC MORTAR (Late Iron Age to Roman - 50 BC to 200 AD)
  • COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 250 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 1:48PM

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