NHER 35325 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 2000 recovered prehistoric worked flint flakes, part of a medieval pottery lamp and other fragments of medieval and post-medieval pottery. Metal-detecting in 2017 and 2022 recovered a Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian Borre-syrle buckle frame and bridle cheek piece and a post-medieval spur fragment.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF81SE
Civil Parish GREAT DUNHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

25 June 2000. Fieldwalking.
Field under flowering field beans, ie tall plants but weathered surface.
Strip about 70 metres wides along western edge of field 'fieldwalked' by approximately ten people including A. Rogerson (NLA) and [1].
Two undatable prehistoric flint flakes.
Eighty four medieval unglazed including four jar rims, two bowl rims and one base possibly a lamp.
Six glazed Grimston.
Five glazed red earthenware.
One frilled base late medieval/early post medieval stoneware.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 25 June 2000.

April-May 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
Post-medieval spur fragment.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 July 2017.

April-May 2022. Metal-detecting. [3].
Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian Borre-syrle buckle frame (S1) and Anglo-Scandinavian bridle cheek piece (S1).
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to the whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
A. Beckham (HES), 8 September 2022. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 10 March 2023 and P. Watkins (HES), 18 December 2023.

  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2023. Drawing of a Late Saxon bridle fragment and buckle frame. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1000 AD)
  • BRIDLE BIT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
  • LAMP (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPUR (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 26 2024 7:56PM

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