Medieval metal finds at Free Roberts (EHER 14957)

A series of metal detecting and fieldwalking events from 1993-1996 collected a medieval coins and a spear.

Monument description derived from merging EHER 14957 and 14961. 1993. Metal detecting. The opportunity was taken to record the finds from the metal detecting weekend arranged by the church fund-raising committee. Although about 50 of the metal detectorists reported a total of some 50 finds it was estimated that only about 25% of the objects were recorded. The fields searched included those named in the Tithe Award of 1839-41 as Shillingstone, Home Field, Horse Croft, Long Croft and Middle Shot. A medieval spearhead was recovered. <1> <2> 1994. Metal detecting. A second metal detecting event was organised for the following year and in addition to new fields part of the original area was detected again. The medieval material was not large in quantity but good hammered coins, long cross and silver of English, Scottish and Irish provenance were found. One had a York mint mark. There was also a fragment of a silver cross, beautifully worked with engraved religious symbols. It is not stated in <3> where these items were found. <4> 1996. Fieldwalking and geophysical survey. Further survey and fieldwalking including a resistivity survey did not locate any obvious building foundations. <5> - <7>