Find Spot record MNL 142 - IA coins and terret ring
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 6766 7718 (302m by 299m) Approximate |
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Map sheet | TL67NE |
Civil Parish | MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
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Type and Period (1)
Full Description
1970s - 1980s: `Iceni coin, boar-horse type' found by [the late] John King in 1981 with a metal detector `beside footpath', South East of known Roman site, (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) approximately. Several other Iceni coins also known as from this site (S1). Area heavily metal detected in 1970's and early 1980's by various unknown persons. `Many Iron Age coins' (metal detected) from (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) site, `seem to have been found in a line', suggested as trackway by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s)(S2).
1989: Three Iron Age (& one Roman) silver coins (belonging to (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s), ? some of above) photographed by Chris Mycock (S3). These are all Iceni type:
1) Pattern horse. Obv: two back-to-back crescents and four leafed or branched ornaments as Tasciovanus staters. Rev: horse with Y pattern head with spoked wheel behind, dotted circle below. Rare, circa AD 10, similar to Allen III (S4).
2) Pattern horse, ?inscription not visible. Obv: two back-to-back crescents. Rev: horse with Y pattern head with dotted wheel behind and S below. Probably late?
3) Face horse. Obv: moustached head. Rev: horse with `pelta-shaped pattern above. Allen type Normal B, probably 101 (from AD 43?)(S4). These three coins also identified by Derek Harrison - see (S5).
1991: Further silver coin found metal detecting by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s)(USAF). Described as pattern horse reverse, two crescents obverse (S6).
1994: Two terret ring fragments found detecting by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). Details in (S7)(R2) and drawings in file.
Also Bronze Age, Roman, Medieval, Un & Saxon.
2013: An incomplete copper-alloy La Tene I brooch, type IBc, of 4th to 3rd century BC found by metal detecting (SF-A56522). (S8)
Sources/Archives (11)
- <S1> SSF10257 (No record type): King, J.. King J, 1982, and September 1988.
- <R1> SSF2825 (No record type): BSEMH, enquiry 540, 1989.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: note by C Mycock, (S3), (S5), finds report.
- <S2> SSF11162 (No record type): Merchant, S.. Merchant S per BSEMH (Mycock C), 22 October 1989.
- <R2> SSF2809 (No record type): BSEMH, enquiry 1666, 1994.
- <S3> SSF2877 (No record type): BSEMH, Mycock C, photographs (2), Nov/Dec 1989.
- <S4> SSF161 (No record type): Allen D F, `The coins of the Iceni', Britannia, 1, 1970, 1-33.
- <S5> SSF7306 (No record type): Harrison D, letter to Chris Mycock, 4 Jan 1990.
- <S6> SSF23051 (No record type): West T, February 1991.
- <S7> SSF15277 (No record type): Owens R per BSEMH per SAU (JP), finds report, December 1994.
- <S8> SSF55627 Article in serial: Brudenell, M. & Plouviez, J.. 2014. Archaeology in Suffolk 2013. XXXXIII (2).
Finds (2)
- FSF18759: COIN (Late Iron Age - 1 AD to 42 AD)
- FSF18760: HARNESS (Late Iron Age - 1 AD to 42 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Sep 5 2015 3:30PM