NHER 33083 (Find Spot record) - Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic tranchet axehead, Roman coin and Early Saxon belt mount

1996. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman illegible copper alloy coin, uncertain date.
1 Early Saxon gilt copper alloy square belt mount. 5th century or early 6th century, decorated with a saltire of four chip carved leaf shapes, each surrounded by tiny punch marks. In the centre are five punched circles, a further punched circle is between each leaf. The whole is surrounded by a border of crescentric punches (perhaps produced by tilting the circular punch). Two integral attachment shanks on reverse. See notes in file and polaroid (S1).
Coin identified by J. Davies (NCM) and belt mount by H. Geake (A&E).
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 19 December 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.

Pre June 2001. Stray Find.
Gressenhall enquiry No. E10308.
1 Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint tranchet axehead. See drawing (S2).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
This discovery was reported in (S3).
K. Hinds (NLA), 26 June 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 March 2014.