NHER 25677 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period findspot

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Summary

Metal-detecting in 1989 recovered an extremely rare medieval coin, a halfpenny of Henry I (1100 to 1135). Fieldwalking in 1992 recovered prehistoric worked flints. Metal-detecting in 2010 recovered post-medieval jettons, a prehistoric flint flake, Romano-British, medieval and post-medieval pot sherds, Early Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-med metal objects including a fragment of Early Saxon long-brooch, medieval writing leads and a post-medieval pipe tamper.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TM29SW
Civil Parish	HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Late 1989. Metal-detecting. Halfpenny of Henry I. Round halfpenny, not cut. Extremely rare coin. In file is identification by Fitzwilliam Museum. See 1:2500 map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 January 1990.

November 1992-January 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Evaluation on proposed route of Hardwick Landfill site access road:
Flints.
See report (S1) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.164).
E. Rose (NAU), 11 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 December 2022.

Before 20 October 2010. Metal-detecting.
Prehistoric flint flake, Romano-British, medieval and post-medieval pot sherds, Early Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects and three post-medieval jettons.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 1 March 2011.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF61439 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Summary Report on an Archaeological Survey on the Hardwick Landfill Site Access. Norfolk Archaeological Unit.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (19)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
LONG BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
PURSE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STYLUS (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
BOOK FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HARNESS MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
PIPE TAMPER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
SCISSORS (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)