NHER 12716 (Monument record) - Settlement of unknown date and Iron Age and Roman finds

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Summary

A probable settlement of unknown date is visible as a series of cropmark enclosures of aerial photographs. An Iron Age brooch and a pair of Roman tweezers have been found by metal detecting. The eastern edge of this site and the adjacent NHER 36368 has mapped from aerial photographs and has been included within the Roman settlement (NHER 5587) to the east.

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  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL78NW
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1977. Context 1 at grid reference. On ploughed surface.
Copper alloy brooch, La Tene I type, with solid cast bow.
Via NCM.

12 August 1981. NAU air photograph.
Soil marks.
Rectilinear marks of ploughed out settlement area?
D. Edwards (NAU) 21 April 1982.

Early 2004. Metal detecting.
Roman pair of tweezers of abnormal form.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 October 2004.

January 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The eastern edge of this site and the adjacent NHER 36368 has mapped from aerial photographs and has been included within the Roman settlement (NHER 5587) to the east.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 5th January 2017.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2021 7:46AM

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