NHER 37316 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal detecting and fieldwalking at this location between 2002 and 2024 recovered Neolithic to Bronze Age worked flints; Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; a fragment of undated iron slag and a number of Bronze Age to post-medieval metal objects. These metal finds include a fragment of a Middle/Late Bronze Age bladed implement; a Roman iron slide key; a Late Saxon strap end; a medieval strap end, swivel, copper alloy seal matrix and unidentified copper alloy object; a potentially medieval lead pot mend; a medieval/post-medieval sword scabbard chape and cauldron foot and a post-medieval lead Dutch customs alnage seal.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG21SE
Civil Parish	BEESTON ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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May/June 2002. Metal-detecting.
1 ?Bronze Age flint scraper and 1 flake.
?Medieval lead pot mend.
Medieval/post-medieval cauldron foot.
?Medieval/post-medieval sword chape.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 July 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 November 2023.

December 2004. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Beeston St Andrew parish survey (Field 5):
1 undated iron slag fragment.
1 ?Neolithic flint horseshoe scraper and 1 nosed scraper.
1 prehistoric flint flake.
2 Roman pottery sherds.
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd.
20 medieval pottery sherds.
1 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
31 post-medieval sherds.
See list and notes with map in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 July 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 November 2023.

February-March 2007. Metal-detecting.
Roman iron slide key (S1).
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 April 2007.

September-October 2019. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval openwork strap end (S2).
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 March 2024.

October-November 2019. Metal-detecting. [2].
Middle/Late Bronze Age small blade, knife, or rapier fragment.
Late Saxon openwork strap end.
Medieval gilded unidentified object.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2020.

November 2021-February 2022. Metal-detecting. [3].
Medieval swivel (S4).
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 October 2023.

8 January 2022. Metal-detecting Rally. [4].
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix.
Post-medieval lead Dutch customs alnage seal.
Information from PAS import.
See finds list and distribution map (S3).
A. Beckham (HES), 11 January 2022 and P. Watkins (HES), 17 December 2023.

September 2024. Fieldwalking. [5].
1 Neolithic flint flake.
3 Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint flakes.
1 Early Bronze Age flint thumbnail scraper.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 June 2025.

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF76190 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of a Roman iron slide key.. Film. 1:1.
<S2> SNF100249 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2019. Drawing of a medieval strap end. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.
<S3> SNF101471 Unpublished Document: Guy, A.. 2021. Distribution map and finds list for Norwich Metal-detecting Club Rally, Beeston St Andrew, January 2022. Find map and list.
<S4> SNF101627 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2022. Drawing of a medieval swivel. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (11)

Object Types (24)

FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
ASSEMBLAGE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 801 BC)
METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
STRAP END (Late Saxon - 900 AD to 1000 AD)
CAULDRON (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT MEND (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SCABBARD (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1200 AD)
STRAP END (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1300 AD)
SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1400 AD to 1500 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
SEAL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1720 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 27 2025 2:53PM