|
Date: |
|
Description: | prehistoric worked flints, moulds indicating different methods of Iron Age metalworking on the same site, Thetford ware vessels and sherds
Collection of mainly excavated material covering all periods. The collection includes Palaeolithic flints from Melford Bridge, Mesolithic flints from Two Mile Bottom and Neolithic flints from Thetford Warren. There are Iron Age brooches and coin moulds and Romano-British brooches, dress accessories and toilet implements from the Iron Age religious site at Fison Way. The collection is dominated by Late Saxon material from sites all over the town, mainly excavated south of the rivers in advance of town development in the late 1950s and 1960s, and added to from excavations on both sides of the rivers in subsequent decades. The Medieval period is represented by some fine stone architectural carvings from St. Mary's Priory and coin minting material from north of the river. Multi-period sites are also represented, including St. Helen's Well, Thetford Castle, Redcastle Furze and St. Nicholas Street. There is an archive of human and animal bones from the major sites. Metal-detecting has contributed to the collection, most notably in the hoard of Roman silver siliquae (coins) and Romano-British coins from Gallows Hill. The Anglo-Saxon and medieval elements of the collection have also been augmented by the results of fieldwalking.
In addition to 550 individual items the collection includes 750 boxes of site archive material, together with excavation paperwork from excavations since 1948.
The collection is supported by high quality replicas of the Thetford Treasure; late Roman gold and silver jewellery, spoons and strainers which were found by metal detecting at Gallows Hill. The originals are in the British Museum. | Format: | 550 artefacts and objects together with 750 boxes of site archive material | Subjects: | Anglo-saxon period Pottery Archaeology Archaeological objects Archaeological excavations | Temporal: | Medieval 1066-1500 Saxon 400-1066 Romano-British 0-500 Stone age - pre 2500BC Iron age 800BC-43AD | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7134 | Format: | 550 artefacts and objects together with 750 boxes of site archive material | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Site Archive
Romano-British material excavated from Camerton.
-
-
|