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Excavations at Quidney Farm, Saham Toney, Norfolk 1995

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Sarah Bates ,
Trevor Ashwin ,
John Davies ,
Rowena Gale ,
Alice Lyons ,
Sarah Percival ,
David Starley  and
Catriona Turner-Walker
Sarah Bates
Affiliation:
Norfolk Archaeological Unit
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In 1992 a remarkable collection of metalwork was discovered at Quidney Farm by Jim McLean a local metal detectorist. The finds came from two discrete areas of a field which is c 8 hectares in size and located to the north of the farm in Saham Toney parish (FIGS 1 and 2). From a small area (Findspot A, FIG. 3) four complete bronze terrets or harness rings and a fifth broken and incomplete terret, an enamelled roundel, a plate brooch, and an iron axe head were found. The other group of artefacts, found together (Findspot B, FIG. 3), consisted of two copper-alloy horse bits, an iron and copper-alloy linch pin, a pair of iron manacles, and other fragments of metal, mainly iron, some possibly from a griddle. The finds form part of a rich collection of late Iron Age/ early Roman material found by Mr McLean at Quidney Farm between 1990 and 1993. Recorded under the same site number (County Site 29429) are a miniature terret found approximately 100 m to the west of Findspot A and an Icenian silver coin, boar/horse C type (0.69 g) which was found approximately 150 m to the north-west of the terrets. Also from the site are five Romano-British brooches which date to between A.D. 40 and 60/65. From the south-west end of the same field (recorded as County Site 28294) a total of eight brooches of Romano-British date and an Icenian early Freckenham type gold stater (5.35 g) have been found (FIG. 2a).

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Britannia , Volume 31 , November 2000 , pp. 201 - 237
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Copyright © Sarah Bates 2000. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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