NHER 17940 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric and medieval finds

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Summary

Metal detecting and fieldwalking from 1981 to 1998 recovered a range of objects, including prehistoric flint scrapers, a core, a flake and a point, and medieval harness pendants, jettons, a copper alloy figurine and a buckle.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG11SE
Civil Parish COSTESSEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1981. Bridge Farm. Metal detecting.
In a scatter - medieval jettons and metalwork.
See list in file.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 19 November 1981.
E. B. Green (NCM), 19 November 1981.

1994. Fieldwalking find.
Worked flint flake - Late Neolithic or Bronze Age. Irregular subrectangular flake with two short sections of retouch from the dorsal face.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NCM), 3 March 1994.
W. Milligan (NCM), 21 March 1994.

1994-1998. Fieldwalking.
Undatable prehistoric and Neolithic worked flints.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NCM), 21 March 2000.

  • --- Correspondence: Griffiths, N. 1983. Letter about enclosed illustration copies of horse harness pendants. 25 January.
  • --- Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POINT (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FIGURINE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • JETTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 11 2022 1:06PM

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