NHER 42538 (Find Spot record) - Medieval pottery sherd and plaster fragment

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Summary

Metal detecting in this area during 1999 recovered a piece of medieval pottery and a fragment of plaster.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG23NE
Civil Parish GIMINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Around 1950. Stray Find.
Found "…within garden of John of Gaunt's Hall" (so presumably at this location):
1 post-medieval dagger. Iron blade and copper alloy hilt, the latter decorated with what is possibly a 'VR' motif. Most likely Victorian.
See sketches (S1) and (S2) and photographs in file [1].
Identified from photographs by S. Ashley (HES).
P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2019.

October 1999. Metal-detecting.
Found at [2] during Gimingham Survey:
1 medieval glazed pottery sherd (base, no glaze surviving).
Fragment of plaster with reed impressions.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 October 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2019.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: [Unknown]. Sketch of a post-medieval copper alloy and iron dagger. Paper. Not to scale.
  • <S2> Illustration: [Unknown]. Sketch of decoration on hilt of post-medieval copper alloy and iron dagger. Paper. Not to scale.
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DAGGER (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 27 2019 12:40PM

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