NHER 32022 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds scatter

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Summary

A fragment of a Bronze Age spearhead, medieval coins, and a medieval purse frame with inlaid niello, and medieval enamelled shield-shaped harness pendants, all found by metal detecting.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF90NW
Civil Parish ASHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

October/November 1995. Metal detecting finds.
Early post medieval lead discoidal weight. 4 sunken dots (= 4oz). Castle and lion passant = City of Norwich arms. Damaged crowned initial may read IR (for James I). Roughly incised 'W'.
1 medieval coin. See list in file. Identified J. Davies (NCM).
Shield-shaped medieval copper alloy harness pendant, broken suspension loop. Traces of red enamel. Blazon: vair en point. Drawn S. Ashley (NAU) See (S1) and (S2).
Fragment Late medieval purse frame, U-section, integral holes, decorated with triple diagonal cross-hatched niello inlaid lines. Rocker arm ornament along base. Very elaborate. Identified S. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 4 May 1996.

December 1995. Metal detecting find.
Part of Middle Bronze Age spearhead, blade fragment, tip missing. 1500-1100BC, (S3).
A.Rogerson (NLA) 4 April 1996.

1996. Metal detecting find.
Medieval shield-shaped horse harness pendant and attachment stud, with blazon of a hart passant argent attired gules, and in base a ?hare argent issuant from a mount vert. Enamelled.
See (S2) and (S4).
Ident S. Margeson (NCM) and S. Ashley (NAU).
H. Geake (A&E) 8 November 1996.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Ashley, S.. 1996. Drawing of a medieval horse harness pendant.. Film. 2:1.
  • <S2> Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
  • <S3> Illustration: Jenkins, T.. 1996. Drawing of a Bronze Age spearhead fragment.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S4> Illustration: Ashley, S.. 1996. Drawing of a medieval horse harness pendant.. Film. 2:1.
  • SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 15 2023 7:50AM

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