NHER 5618 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds, Late Saxon strap end and buckle

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Summary

In the 1920s a number of Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds were recovered from this area. Metal detecting in 1993 recovered a fragment of a Late Saxon strap end, and a wonderfully preserved and unusual Late Saxon buckle.

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Map sheet	TL78NE
Civil Parish	WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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1920, 1928-9. Bromehil. See Notes.
Coarse Roman sherds. (S1),
In NCM [1] from R. R. Clarke.
Thetford Museum.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Broomhill. See Notes.
Potsherds found 1920 by W. G. Clarke.
1928-9 sherds found H. T. Green and R. R. Clarke.
Thetford Museum (pottery found W. G. Clarke), Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (soapy ware bowl found 1 mile east of Brandon I century BC (is this the same site? E. Rose)
Information from (S2), (S3), (S4).
In NCM [2] from R. R. Clarke.
Rim of high shouldered pot in Iron Age A (R. R. Clarke site 4 top Bromehill). Style coarse gritty paste with external brown slip.
Base sherd in brown corky ware (?IAA) R. Clarke site 21 (between railway and river).
Sketch from card in file.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

May 2003. Metal detecting.
Fragment of ?Late Saxon lead ?strap end and wonderfully preserved and unusual Late Saxon buckle.
See list in file with NGRs.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 25 May 2003.

Associated Sources (10)

--- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Weeting.
--- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Weeting with Broomhill.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 78 NE 22; TL 78 NE 24; TL 78 NE 25 [2]; TL 78 NE 49.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF1650 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1923. Recent Discoveries in Norwich and Thetford. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXI pp 75-76. p 76.
<S2> SNF1971 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 102.
<S3> SNF1650 Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1923. Recent Discoveries in Norwich and Thetford. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXI pp 75-76. p 76.
<S4> SNF6083 Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 96; Pl XVI.4.
<S5> SNF5610 Article in Serial: Cunliffe, B.. 1968. Early Pre-Roman Iron Age Communities in Eastern England.. Antiquaries Journal. Vol 48, p 180.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (4)

POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BUCKLE (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
STRAP END (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)

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Weeting with Broomhill (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jul 4 2016 12:18PM