NHER 24220 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period metal and pottery finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG10NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BARFORD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Winter 1986-1987. Surface finds and m/d finds in sugar beet field in what is to become a golf course.
Good scatter, over area about 100m across, of 3rd and 4th century Roman pottery. At SE edge of scatter, three Early Saxon bronze objects, kidney-shaped buckle, fragment of cruciform brooch (junction of foot and bow) and edge fragment of disc brooch with faint residual traces of low relief ornamental border interlace (?), skeuomorph (?) of coin inscription (illiterate copy of inscription) - this is perhaps Late Saxon or just Middle Saxon (E.B. Green).
[1]
A. Gregory 9 December 1987.
January 1988 additional surface finds as above.
One sherd Early Saxon pottery.
One sherd Thetford-type ware.
One sherd Grimston greenglazed.
Three sherds medieval? Unglazed.
Inf and penes as above.
A. Gregory 29 February 1988.
Before mid-January 1989. Further finds.
Unidentifiable Sestertius (Ident. D. Gurney); Bronze looped artefact- possible post medieval sword-belt fitting.
(Ident. S.Margeson).
A. Rogerson, 16 January 1989.
Also fragment of tegula; 14th-15th century belt hook; fragment of Edward I long cross penny 1272/3.
See (S1).
E. Rose, 4 April 1989.
Associated Sources (1)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (16)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- KNIFE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TEGULA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BUCKLE (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Feb 17 2009 3:16PM