NHER 30389 (Find Spot record) - Middle Saxon, medieval and post medieval finds

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Summary

Metal detecting here in 1993 retrieved a Middle Saxon object decorated with niello along with medieval and post medieval metalwork objects.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM09NE
Civil Parish ATTLEBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1993. Metal detecting.
Middle Saxon pyramid shaped solid bronze ?foot (iron base and on broken tapering top). Around each triangular face is a border of niello inlaid with meandering silver wire now surviving only fragmentarily.
Possible medieval ring - ?buckle/brooch.
Medieval ?unidentified bronze object.
Post medieval rumbler bell.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), December 1993.
Polaroid (S1) in file.
W. Milligan (NCM) 10 January 1994.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • VESSEL (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 28 2017 8:55AM

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