NHER 9382 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age/Roman, Late Saxon and medieval finds

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Summary

In 1949 Medieval pottery sherds and burnt flints were recovered as stray finds, while metal-detecting in 1987 recovered an Iron Age or Roman terret and a Late Saxon nummular brooch designed as an imitation Roman coin.

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Map sheet	TG10NE
Civil Parish	HETHERSETT, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1949. West of White House Farm.
2 sherds of glazed late medieval pottery with heap of calcined flints.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

5 August 1987. Wilcon Development found with metaldetecting.
Late Iron Age/early Roman terret, dropped bar type, compare with example in (S1).
Photos NAU and NCM.
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, coin prototype of House of Theodosius rather than House of Constantius, or via Louis the Pious. Reidentified as House of Valentinian.
See details in file, correspondence (S3) and polaroid Nos. 3599 and 4446.
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU), S. Margeson (NCM) and M. Archibald (British Museum (Coins and Medals)).
W. Milligan (NCM) 7 August 1987 (to NAU) October 1987.

(S2) has '1987 dark earth, pot boilers'.

Associated Sources (13)

--- SNF100373 Article in Serial: Margeson, S. 1992. Middle and Late Saxon Norfolk. The Annual. Vol 1, pp 29-36.
--- SNF61312 Correspondence: Archibald, M.. 1987. Letter. 21 September.
--- SNF9597 Photograph: EDK 21-30.
--- SNF51667 Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
--- SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
--- SNF87263 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Hethersett.
--- 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. TG 10 NE 49.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
--- SNF100375 Unpublished Document: Archibald, M. 1987. Notes and correspondence about coins and pseudo-coin brooches sent to the British Museum.
<S1> SNF60193 Monograph: McGregor, M.. 1976. Early Celtic Art in North Britain.. p 41. No 59.
<S2> SNF52555 Map: NCM. NCM Record Map.
<S3> SNF100918 Correspondence: British Museum. 1987. Correspondence between a member of British Museum staff and S. Margeson regarding Middle Saxon pseudo-coin brooches. 3 December.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (5)

HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
HARNESS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT BOILER (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Hethersett (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jan 12 2021 11:59AM