NHER 33383 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

October/November 1997. Metal detecting find.
Late Saxon stirrup angle mount, (S2). Iron on reverse. Hollow copper alloy mount on front in form of an animal head with zone of ribbing between two transverse ridges below. Animal head is Ringerike style with long oval ears partly obscured by scrolling S-shaped eyebrows. Nose has a pair of similar scrolling whiskers. 11th century.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 12 January 1998.

December 1997/January 1998. Metal detecting finds. [1].
Large one-piece Colchester brooch, very corroded so that all of surface is lost. Nevertheless fairly complete, with forward-facing hook under which the surviving chord passes. Half the spring survives, corroded around a (non-functional) iron axis bar. Bow smoothly curves to a pointed foot, with catch-plate on reverse. Late Iron Age/early Roman. 1st century.
Late medieval/early post medieval thimble made by stamping and hammering straight rim decorated with single engraved line. Side covered with vertical rows of small circular indentations. Top partly covered with spiral of the same. The very tip is bare.
Identified by H. Geake (A&E).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 10 February 1998.

1997. Metal detecting. [2].
Medieval stirrup base.
Medieval copper alloy ewer spout in the form of a dog. North Germanic of Flemmish in origin.
Handle cast separately to the body, this is why they often came apart.
See (S1).
Identified by H. M. Geake (A&E) December 1997.
K. Sussams (NLA) 31 December 1997.

March 2024. Metal-detecting. [3].
Roman plate brooch.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [4].
P. Watkins (HES), 6 July 2024 and 26 January 2025.