NHER 49881 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds scatter

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Summary

A metal detecting rally held here in 2006 recorded a number of flint implements including a possible Late Upper Palaeolithic or Early Mesolithic blade. Other finds include a Middle Bronze Age tanged chisel, Roman pottery, an unusual composite Roman plate brooch and a single silver coin dating from the reign of Edward II. Metal-detecting between 2007 and 2017 recovered Roman coins, a Middle Bronze Age moustache-shaped unidentified object, and a medieval thimble.

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Map sheet	TL89SW
Civil Parish	LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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September - October 2006. Metal-detecting NMD club day out/rally.
1 ?Upper Palaeolithic/?Early Mesolithic retouched flint blade.
2 Late Prehistoric/Neolithic flake fragments.
5 Late Prehistoric flint flakes.
1 Middle Bronze Age copper alloy tanged chisel (S1).
1 Roman brooch composite brooch fragment (unusual and tinned).
1 medieval coin.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM), coin by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists, (S1) and map copy in file.
Roman greyware pottery sherds also said to have been found but not seen by [1] and not shown to I&RS.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 November 2003.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 7 May 2014.

September - October 2006. metal-detecting NMD club day out/rally (reported through ENMD).
2 Late Neolithic flint scrapers, 1 retouched flint flake, 64 flakes/flake fragments and 1 spall.
1 Roman sherd (greyware).
Pottery identified by A. Rogerson (NLA) and flints by P. Robins (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 November 2006.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 7 May 2014.

September 2007. Metal detecting.
Romano-British coin and medieval thimble.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 October 2007.

October-November 2017. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald, 1 January 2018.

October-November 2017. Metal-detecting. [2].
Middle Bronze Age moustache-shaped unidentified object (S2).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 March 2018.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF75407 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2006. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age chisel.. Film. 1:1.
<S2> SNF99580 Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of a Bronze Age moustache-shaped unidentified object. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (12)

BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 7001 BC)
FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
FLAKE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
CHISEL (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 1000 BC)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 103 AD to 111 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Jun 14 2021 12:33PM