NHER 11405 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age palstave and possible Roman finger ring
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HILGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Around 1973. Dug up in garden.
Unlooped palstave, small hole in hafting slot.
Accurate grid reference from (S1).
In fact not so accurate. Location corrected from up-to-date map of houses sent by West Norfolk District Council 1988.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 January 1988.
Around 1980. Metal-detecting.
Found in garden with metal detector:
1 silver finger ring, could be late Roman but perhaps more recent Near Eastern. See drawing (S2).
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
Information from A. Rogerson (NAU).
Now believed to be most likely a relatively recent object, see below.
E. Rose (NAU), 3 December 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 January 2016.
March 2009.
The silver ring found in the 1980s was believed lost [1] but has now been located.
See email (S3), confirming that possibly Roman silver ring found in c. 1980 is not ancient
A. Rogerson (NLA) 27 February 2009
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 NW 22.
- <S2> SNF93978 Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. Drawing of a ?relatively recent silver finger ring. Paper. Unknown.
- <S3> SNF71533 Correspondence: Pestell, T, Jackson, R & Hearn, V. 2009. Email correspondance regarding a possible Roman finger ring.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (2)
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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Record last edited
Jun 30 2016 12:28PM