NHER 20330 (Find Spot record) - Two Roman coins and a Roman key handle

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Summary

Metal detecting in 1984 and 1986 recovered a burnt Roman base silver denarius coin of Antoninus Pius dating to between AD 138 to AD 161, a Roman copper alloy key handle, and a contemporary copy of a Roman copper alloy coin, dating to roughly AD 348 to AD 360.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG30NW
Civil Parish	POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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April 1984. Found with metal detector in ploughed field. [1]
Roman copper alloy key handle of trefoil form, with broken socket for iron key. See (S1).
Roman AE coin, legend reads FEL TEMP REPARATIO, copy dating to AD 348 - 360.
A. Gregory (NAU), 30 April 1984.

May 1986. 'Very close' to the find spot of the key. Metal detector find in topsoil.
Base silver denarius of Antoninus Pius, reverse illegible, burnt.
A. Gregory (NAU), 29 May 1986.

Part of large scatter NHER 31194.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF78554 Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1984. Drawing of a Roman copper alloy key handle of trefoil form.. Film. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Object Types (3)

COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Postwick (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Apr 4 2014 1:59PM