NHER 21770 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age and Roman to post-medieval finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting between 1989 and 2015 recovered Roman pottery and a tile fragment; Roman and medieval coins; a post-medieval token and undated, Bronze Age and Roman to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include undated metalworking debris; a Bronze Age chisel and spear head; a Roman brooch; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; a medieval pot mend, furniture fitting and keys; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy ring and copper alloy vessel fragments and a post medieval silver toilet set and hooked attachment chape from spur. An undated ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now recorded under NHER 61165.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF80SE
Civil Parish ASHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

CROPMARKS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON THIS SITE ARE NOW RECORDED UNDER NHER 61165.

1989. Metal detecting.
2 drawings in file of ex NCM Bronze Age objects, not otherwise recorded, (S2 and S3).
D. Gurney (NLA), 27 March 2002.

1990. Metal detecting find.
Bronze Age tanged chisel/stake Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age (S4).
Ident S. Needham, British Museum (November 1991)
Polaroid NCM. See (S2). Drawing in file. On display at Swaffham Museum (1991)
W. Milligan, (NCM) 7 November 1991

Drawing sent by NCM in 1990 shows Middle Bronze Age socketed leaf-shaped spearhead with same county number (S5 and S6), but no information except finder received. (Spearhead had wood in socket, (S7)).
NLA by 1992
E. Rose, (NLA) 27 March 1992

1994. Metal detecting.
Roman brooch.
2 medieval coins.
Post medieval pin and silver toilet set.
See form and list in file.
D. Gurney (NLA) 7 September 1994.

Metal detecting, 1989-1990.
Early Bronze Age (S2), Middle Bronze Age (S5, S6 and S7), Late Bronze Age (S3), Romano British, Early Saxon (S8 and S9), Middle/Late Saxon, Medieval, Medieval/Post-Medieval and Post-Medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 September 2008.

Before 9 September 2014. Metal-detecting. [3].
Undated metalworking debris.
3 Roman coins, 3 pottery sherds and 1 abraded tile fragment.
2 medieval coins, a buckle, pot mend and a possible casket key.
Medieval/post-medieval buckle, copper alloy ring and copper alloy vessel fragments, including a leg and a repair.
1 post-medieval token and a hooked attachment chape from spur.
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to whole field.
A. Beckham (HES), 7 September 2015.

  • --- Monograph: Jackson, Ralph. 2010. Cosmetic Sets of Late Iron Age and Roman Britain. British Museum Research Publication. 181. No 7 or No 8.
  • --- Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: CUCAP BYA 53, 54.
  • <S2> Illustration: Unknown. 1989. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age axehead.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S3> Illustration: Unknown. 1989. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S4> Illustration: Davies, J. A.. 1991. Drawing of a Bronze Age chisel or an Early/Middle Bronze Age stake. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S5> Illustration: Robins, P.. 1991. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age spearhead.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S6> Illustration: White, S.. 1991. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age socketed leaf-shaped spearhead.. Card. 1:1.
  • <S7> Illustration: Robins, P.. 1992. Drawing of the wood from a Middle Bronze Age spear head.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S8> Illustration: Penn, K. Unknown. Drawing of an Early Saxon bow brooch.. Film. 2:1.
  • <S9> Illustration: Penn, K. Unknown. Drawing of an Early Saxon cruciform brooch.. Film. 2:1.
  • AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • CHISEL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLANGED AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SPEAR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
  • BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COSMETIC PESTLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 98 AD to 260 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 161 AD to 192 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • STRAP END (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CHAFING DISH (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • NAIL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1500 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1251 AD to 1272 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1600 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • RING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1350 AD to 1550 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SWORD BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOILET ARTICLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPUR (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
  • TOKEN (17th Century - 1667 AD to 1670 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 12 2026 4:40PM

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