NHER 31318 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

June 1995. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey and Watching Brief.
Field survey carried out on site of proposed quarry at Needham.
Visibility was not good due to a cereal crop which had recently been cut and spread on the field.
Only four finds were recovered by metal detector: a possible cauldron rim, a fragment of bronze, an early Georgian coin and a piece of modern bronze brooch.
No archaeological features or deposits were observed during subsequent monitoring of topsoil stripping.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
S. Bates (NAU), 12 July 1995.

June to July 1998. Metal detecting.
Dolphin brooch with hinge mechanism, head and top of bar only surviving. White metal coated. The wings are tubular and hold a bronze axis bar; there is a curious curled piece of bronze strip (rectangular in section) protruding from the pin-slot, which is perhaps part of the pin. The wings are undecorated. The bar is narrow and facetted at top: at the angle it is transversely ribbed, circular in section and broken (old break).
Roman, 1st century AD.
See (S3).
Identified by H. Geake (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 July 1999.