NHER 2779 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age enamelled terret

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Summary

Around 1971 an enamelled Iron Age terret was recovered from this area by a worker farming sugar beet.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF63NE
Civil Parish SNETTISHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Around 1971. Stray Find.
Found at approximately [1]:
Iron Age copper alloy enamelled terret. See drawing (S1).
On loan to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : L1975.11).
Information from (S2).
This object is one of three Iron Age terrets from Norfolk described and figured in (S3). It is identified as belonging to Leeds Class 3, with lips set transversely to the ring. It is recorded as having been found by a workman hoeing sugar beet adjacent to a carstone quarry, approximately a quarter of a mile from Ken Hill.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2018.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 63 SE 59.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Milligan, W. F. 1971. Drawing of an Iron Age copper alloy enamelled terret. Card. 2:1.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Snettisham.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Green, B. 1972. Three Iron Age Bronze Terrets. Antiquaries Journal. Vol 52 p 346. p 346.
  • HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 17 2023 3:53PM

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