NHER 21927 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flints, Early Saxon metalwork and medieval pottery sherds

October 1985. Metal detector survey over field.
Context 1 at [1]. Late Saxon (?) bronze tweezers.
Context 2 at [2]. Gilt bronze 'ring' (probably oval) brooch fragment 13th century with bosses probably originally containing glass pellets.
Context 3. Early Saxon (?) bronze 'spacer' bead at [3].
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) November 1985.
Details of general scatter never received.

April 1994. Context 4 at [4].
One Roman coin. See list in file.
Context 5 at [5].
Early Saxon Group 4 cruciform brooch, foot below catchplate and one side knob (cast-in-one) missing. Plain half-circular lappets, pair of transverse grooves below bow. Single pin-lug and catchplate damaged. Recent and older damage. Tinning/silvering on front. Photographed.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 8 June 1994.

May 1994. Metal detector finds.
One Roman and three medieval coins. See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 June 1994.

1994. Metal detector finds.
Early Saxon small-long brooch of cross headed type. Foot, top 'knob' and one side 'knob' missing. Lappets above transverse mouldings. Part burnt and some modern damage. Double pin-lug. Catchplate. Very unusually bronze pin (of flattened section), loop only surviving, held in lug by bronze pin bar. Photograph.
Apparently shapeless molten bronze incorporating fragment of cremated bone.
Rectangular belt-hasp, shank inside frame with square rove, medieval.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 December 1994.

March 1996. Fieldwalking survey by [1]. Survey field 16.
Flints.
Medieval sherds.
See full details in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 22 July 1996.

February 1999. Fieldwalking
Finds: Medieval sherds.
See details in file.
E. Rose (NLA) May 1999.