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Description: | Mesolithic flints from Kelling Heath, Roman coins and metalwork found by metal detecting at North Creake, excavation archives from Brampton Roman town and Brancaster Roman fort, excavation archives from Bromholm and Binham Priories,
Collection of excavated, fieldwalked and metal detected material from over 900 sites in North Norfolk. The finds are mostly single finds, although some noteable sites are represented. There are objects from all archaeological periods although there is little material from the Iron Age. Metal detectorists have played a notable part in the enrichment of the collection from this area of Norfolk. There is a significant collection of mesolithic flints from a hunting camp at Kelling Heath, produced at a time when the sea level was much lower than at present. The Bronze Age is represented by a number of bronze tool hoards, including those from Foulsham, Stibbard and Beeston Regis, and by cremation urns from Witton, near North Walsham. A hoard of Iron Age gold coins was found at Weybourne. From the Roman period is the site archive from the excavation at Warham camp; metalworking debris and pottery manufactured at the Roman town of Brampton together with imported goods, personal accessories and coinage, and a range of finds from the Roman fort at Brancaster (Branodunum). Moving on to the Saxon period there are finds from the excavation of a group of huts at Witton, near North Walsham, together with fragments of cremation urns and grave goods from a number of cemeteries. The medieval period is represented by a range of finds from a fortified moated manor house at Baconsthorpe (Baconsthorpe Castle), tiles from a moated site at neighbouring Hempstead, a range of finds from religious houses at Bacton (Bromholme Priory) and North Creake and a collection of metalwork from Beeston Regis. | Format: | 1000 artefacts together with 240 boxes of site archive material and paperwork from excavations since 1951 | Subjects: | Metal detecting Archaeological sites Archaeology Archaeological objects Archaeological excavations | Temporal: | Medieval 1066-1500 Saxon 400-1066 Bronze age 2500BC- 700BC Romano-British 0-500 Stone age - pre 2500BC | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7148 | Format: | 1000 artefacts together with 240 boxes of site archive material and paperwork from excavations since 1951 | Go to resource |
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