NHER 18338 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal detecting recovered a Roman copper alloy coin and an undated copper alloy dome-headed pin. Later fieldwalking found three prehistoric worked flints, one possible piece of Iron Age pot, and fragments of Roman and medieval pottery.

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Map sheet	TL89NE
Civil Parish	LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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November 1977. Found with metal detector on field surface. Context 2 at [1] approximately.
Roman bronze coin.
Copper alloy dome-headed pin.
A. Lawson (NAU), 20 August 1982.

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking over whole field by A. Davison (NARG). Context 1.
Three flints.
One disintegrated sherd, Iron Age?
One Roman greyware and one Roman or medieval.
Four medieval unglazed and three glazed Grimston.
One miscellaneous sherd.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 28 July 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF5662 Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (7)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
PIN (Undated)
POT (Undated)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 18 2023 7:46AM