NHER 37681 (Monument record) - Early Saxon cemetery and Iron Age to post-medieval finds

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Summary

Metal-detecting between 2002 and 2018 recovered Late Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon and medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman, Middle Saxon, medieval and post-medieval coins and undated and Late Iron Age/Roman to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include undated casting waste; a possibly Iron Age unidentified copper alloy object; a Late Iron Age/Roman Colchester-type brooch; Roman brooches, bracelets, a furniture fitting, steelyard weight, and a copper alloy nail; Early Saxon brooches, a hairpin and one arm of a pair of tweezers; a Middle Saxon pin; a Middle/Late Saxon disc brooch; a Late Saxon brooch; medieval to post-medieval dress accessories; medieval seal matrices, bell, part of leash swivel and a copper alloy vessel fragment; a medieval/post-medieval ring, book clasps and a lead spindle whorl or weight and a post-medieval crotal bell, brooch or unidentified object, combination lock, sword belt mount and toy pistol.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM19NW
Civil Parish TACOLNESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

September-October 2002. Metal detecting.
Roman and Late Saxon sherd.
Post medieval coin and jettons.
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 December 2002.

March 2012. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours, Field RG1.
Twenty-four Roman, one Middle Saxon, two medieval and two post-medieval coins, Late Iron Age/Roman, Roman, Early Saxon, Middle Saxon, Middle/Late Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 1 May 2012.

March 2013. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours, Field RG1. [1].
Middle Iron Age brooch.
1 Late Iron Age pottery sherd.
5 Roman pottery sherds, a dolphin brooch, steelyard weight, bracelet and a furniture fitting.
Medieval pot mends, buckles, a blunt-hooked harness fitting, spindle whorl, and a mount in the form of a standing bird.
2 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds, hooked book clasps, a conical lead weight, copper alloy vessel fragment and a blunt-hooked clasp.
1 post-medieval pottery sherds, a buckle, button, crotal bell, lead weight and a hooked sword belt mount.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 April 2013.

March-April 2014. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours, Field RG1. [2].
Undatable casting waste.
?Iron Age unidentified copper alloy object.
Roman brooch.
Late Saxon brooch.
Medieval harness fitting, strap-end and buckle.
Post-medieval buckle, combination lock and spur fragment.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 2 June 2014.

March 2017. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours. [3]
2 Iron Age pottery sherds.
1 Roman pottery sherd.
Post-medieval silver brooch or unidentified object.
Information from PAS import.
The post-medieval silver brooch or unidentified object was disclaimed as Tteasure (Ref: 2017 T294) and returned to the finder.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2020.

November 2017-January 2018. Metal-detecting. [4].
1 Roman coin and a bracelet fragment with several motifs.
3 medieval coins and lead seal matrix.
3 post-medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 February 2018.

  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Iron Age - 400 BC to 200 BC)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
  • CASTING WASTE (Unknown date)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 65 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STEELYARD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 50 AD to 70 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 55 AD to 80 AD)
  • BRACELET (Roman - 200 AD to 409 AD)
  • BRACELET (Roman - 200 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 200 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • HAIR PIN (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)
  • PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • COIN (Middle Saxon - 700 AD to 720 AD)
  • BROOCH (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 800 AD to 900 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BELL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • LEASH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • RING (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MOUNT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1300 AD)
  • POT MEND (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1400 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval to 17th Century - 1100 AD to 1700 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • HARNESS FITTING (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval to 16th Century - 1200 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1213 AD to 1215 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1282 AD to 1289 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1450 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1310 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1450 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1400 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
  • POT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
  • POT (Medieval to 16th Century - 1450 AD to 1600 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
  • DRESS FASTENER (DRESS) (Medieval to 18th Century - 1500 AD to 1800 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MOUNT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SWORD BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
  • PADLOCK (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
  • POT (16th Century to 18th Century - 1550 AD to 1750 AD)
  • SWORD BELT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
  • WEIGHT (16th Century to 18th Century - 1550 AD to 1800 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1572 AD to 1573 AD)
  • BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1575 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BUTTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • CROTAL (16th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1800 AD)
  • SPUR (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD)
  • JETTON (17th Century - 1607 AD to 1632 AD)
  • COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1649 AD)
  • BROOCH (17th Century - 1650 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1660 AD to 1720 AD)

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Jan 12 2026 2:25PM

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