NHER 19747 (Find Spot record) - Undated, Neolithic/Bronze Age, Middle/Late Saxon and post-medieval finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1978 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint artefacts were discovered at this location. They included flakes and scrapers. Metal-detecting between 2017 and 2019 recovered post-medieval coins, a Middle/Late Saxon disc brooch, a post-medieval jetton, and undated casting waste.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG10NW
Civil Parish GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Spring 1978. Surface finds. Finder's site 231a.
Ten rough flakes, one notch?, three pebbly scrapers, one point/borer.
Information from member of the public [1].
Identified by A. Lawson (NLA).
A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980.

July-September 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
2 post-medieval coin and a jetton.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 October 2017.

January-February 2019. Metal-detecting. [3].
Middle/Late Saxon cruciform disc brooch (S1).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 March 2020.

April-June 2019. Metal-detecting. [4].
Undated casting waste.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 August 2019.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2019. Drawing of a Middle to Late Saxon disc brooch. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
  • BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POINT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CASTING WASTE (Unknown date)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 800 AD to 900 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1581 AD to 1581 AD)
  • JETTON (17th Century - 1608 AD to 1612 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1645 AD to 1645 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 3 2021 10:14AM

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