NHER 7504 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Part of a Neolithic polished flint axehead was found in 1947. Metal-detecting in 2010 and 2012 recovered prehistoric worked flints; medieval pottery; post-medieval coins and jettons and Late Bronze Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include a Roman brooch; a Late Saxon stirrup collar mount in the form of a stylised animal head; medieval dress accessories and a sword scabbard chape; fragments of medieval/post-medieval cooking vessels and a post-medieval buckle and spur fragment.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG12SE
Civil Parish	HAVERINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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1947. Stray Find. [1].
Found at Quaker Farm:
1 Neolithic polished flint axe or adze (blade end). See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
Subsequently donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.322.5.1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 August 2014.

31 July 2010. Metal-detecting.
Prehistoric worked flints, Late Bronze Age (S3), Roman, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects, medieval sherds, two post-medieval coins and one jetton.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 3 September 2010.

April-May 2012. Metal-detecting. [2].
Late Saxon stirrup collar mount, medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects, one post-medieval jetton.
See lists in file.
Information on jetton from PAS import.
A. Rogerson (HES), 12 June 2012. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2024.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
--- 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. TG 12 SE 6.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF91976 Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. Drawing of a fragmentary Neolithic polished flint axe/adze. Paper. 1:1.
<S2> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Haveringland.
<S3> SNF78228 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2010. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age knife.. Film. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (8)

Object Types (22)

FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
CHAFING DISH (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SCABBARD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
JETTON (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1584 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)
SPUR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1554 AD)
JETTON (17th Century - 1618 AD to 1618 AD)
COIN (17th Century - 1625 AD to 1631 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2024 3:34PM