NHER 29410 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1992 recovered prehistoric worked flints. Metal-detecting between 2016 and 2020 recovered Late Iron Age/Roman (Roman issue), Roman and medieval coins and medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval buckles.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TM29SW
Civil Parish	HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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November 1992-January 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Evaluation on proposed route of Hardwick Landfill site access road (Field 5):
Large spread of prehistoric worked flints. Mostly flakes with a few tools. No concentration or focus.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.164).
E. Rose (NLA), 11 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 31 March 2015 and 5 December 2022.

November 2016. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Late Iron Age/Roman coin (Roman issue of an unknown ruler) and a brooch.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2020.

September 2017-September 2018. Metal-detecting. [2].
Post-medieval buckle.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 June 2021.

September 2019-October 2020. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 June 2021.

October 2020. Metal-detecting. [3].
1 medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 24 June 2021.

Associated Sources (3)

--- 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 SNF61439 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993.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.
<S2> SNF6263 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 115-123. p 118.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (7)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 250 AD)
BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 20 AD to 60 AD)
COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 331 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1182 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval to 17th Century - 1350 AD to 1650 AD)
BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)