NHER 56595 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds (Fakenham, poorly located)

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Summary

Metal-detecting at unrecorded locations in Fakenham parish between 1997 and in 2009 recovered a Roman coin and a number of other metal objects, including an Iron Age crescent-shaped mount, a Roman coin and pin; a potentially Roman polyhedral pin head; a Late Saxon pin and a medieval mount and dagger quillon. A Neolithic flaked flint axehead was also found at an unknown location in the parish in 2007.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	FAKENHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Before 16 May 1997. Metal-detecting.
Iron Age crescent-shaped mount, two opposing crescents as found on the 'pattern horse' type silver unit of the Iceni. On display in Norwich Castle Museum's Boudica Gallery under accession number: 2001.7.2. Possibly found near Fakenham but the exact location is unknown.
J. Davies and A. Beckham (HES), 25 January 2012.

1 January 2005 (or before). Metal-detecting. [1].
From unrecorded location in Fakenham parish:
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
The PAS record for this find states that the six-figure grid reference listed ([2]) represents only the approximately centre of the settlement.
Previously recorded under NHER 61120.
A. Beckham (HES), 10 February 2015. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 September 2025.

December 2005. Metal-detecting. [1].
From unrecorded location(s) in Fakenham parish:
?Roman polyhedral pin head.
Medieval dagger quillon.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 February 2026.

1 January 2006 (or before). Metal-detecting. [1].
From unrecorded location in Fakenham parish:
Late Saxon pin.
Medieval mount.
Information from PAS import.
The PAS recordsfor these finds state that the six-figure grid reference listed in both ([2]) represents only the approximately centre of the settlement.
Previously recorded under NHER 61120.
A. Beckham (HES), 10 February 2015. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 September 2025.

October 2007. Stray find. [1].
From unrecorded location in Fakenham parish:
Neolithic flaked flint axehead.
Information from PAS import.
The six-figure grid reference listed for this find ([2]) it the same as that previously assigned to poorly-located finds from Fakenham (although in this case no explicit qualifier is recorded).
Previously recorded under NHER 61120.
A. Beckham (HES), 10 February 2015. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 September 2025.

October 2009. Metal-detecting. [1].
Roman pin with projecting ring head.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2020.

Associated Sources (1)

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Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)

Object Types (8)

FLAKED AXEHEAD (Middle Neolithic to Beaker - 3500 BC to 2100 BC)
MOUNT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 294 AD to 305 AD)
PIN (Roman - 300 AD to 409 AD)
PIN (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
DAGGER (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1400 AD)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Feb 23 2026 11:11PM