NHER 15974 (Find Spot record) - Early Saxon metal find

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Summary

Metal detecting in 1998 recovered part of an Early Saxon brooch.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG33NW
Civil Parish MUNDESLEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

THE CROPMARKS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOW RECORDED AS NHER 39068.

Cropmarks.
1 July 1976.
NAU air photography.
Cropmarks of recently removed field boundaries overlying those of a previous system of land allotment, and trackways.
See overlay 6 inch scale for NHER Record Map, compiled March 1980.
D. Edwards (NAU), 28 March 1980.

Before 28 March 1998. Metal detecting.
Identified by H. Geake (NCM).
Very corroded small-long brooch.
What remains is lozengiform and apparently undecorated, with remains of a pin bar lug on reverse. The bow is short and steeply bumped and the leg is narrow with transverse grooving. Leg has damaged catchplate on reverse.
(S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 February 2001.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Unpublished Document: Yardley, C. J. 2011. The Mun Valley: Historic landscape Assessment and Landscape Character Assessment for Norfolk Coast Project. p 16.
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. SMR TG 3036A (NLA 28/AFH21) 01-JUL-1976.
  • <S1> Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 20 2011 10:03AM

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