How to prepare your finds for identification and recording in Norfolk

Step 1
Place finds in individual
bags and label each with
the specific find’s grid
reference.

Step 2
Create a separate bag for each field that your finds
were found in and label them with a field title and
an approximate grid reference for the centre of the
field. Group your individual finds to their correct
field bags.

Step 3
By field, place finds into “object type” bags,
separating COINS, OBJECTS, POTTERY, & FLINT for
each field into their own bags. Place these object
type bags into their respective field bags.

Step 4 Notes:
We are only able to identify and record Portable
Place all field bags into a Antiquities made or modified by humans, so we
cannot help with fossils, bones and the like.
master bag labelled with
your NAME, DATE-FOUND-SPAN Please label all bags legibly and indelibly.
(date range in which objects Please use accurate 10 figure grid
were discovered, e.g. 02/01/20 – references wherever possible. We cannot
accept grid references of less than 6 figures.
01/04/20) and where
Finds can be handed-in and collected
the finds were handed in to us. at Shirehall Norwich or Gressenhall near
Dereham, or any participating Metal
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 How to prepare, report and submit discoveries of potential Treasure in Norfolk

The purpose of this guidance is to advise you of the information you will need to have available
when reporting and submitting discoveries of potential Treasure in Norfolk. Condensed details of
what constitutes Treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act can be found in summary here;
https://finds.org.uk/treasure/advice/summary or full details can be found here;
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file
/77532/TreasureAct1996CodeofPractice2ndRevision.pdf

By law, from the time you become aware that your discovery is potential Treasure under the Act,
you have 14 days to report it. This can be done via the Coroner for the area in which you made the
find/s, but in Norfolk through existing local arrangements the Coroner legally delegates this function
to the Finds Liaison Team based in the County Council’s Historic Environment department.

The Finds Liaison team are based at the Museum at Gressenhall near Dereham and at Shirehall
behind the castle in Norwich. The reporting process necessitates the completion of a two-page
Treasure receipt which requires the following information to be supplied by you. Please ensure you
pre-gather and bring this information with you when submitting your item/s of potential
Treasure. You will be given a copy of the receipt.
1. The exact date on which you made the discovery.

2. The exact findspot at which you made the discovery. The findspot needs to be given as a
National Grid Reference of at least 8 digit accuracy (preferably 10). This can be taken by you in
the field at the exact findspot using a smartphone app or GPS device, or at home by using
internet-based mapping sites such as these two examples:-
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/#zoom=15&lat=52.7168&lon=0.9170&marker=52.7148,0.
9225&from=1580&to=1970 or https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm. Alternatively
you can use an Ordnance Survey (OS) map, but obtaining the best accuracy from a small-scale
map can be difficult. Advice on taking a grid reference from an OS map can be found here;
https://finds.org.uk/volunteerrecording/guide/gridreferences

3. Your name, address, post code, phone number and email.

4. The landowner’s name, address, post code, phone number and email.

5. If different to 4. the land occupier’s name, address, post code, phone number and email.

Please ensure you come ready prepared with all of this this information as the Treasure
administration process cannot be completed without it. The reporting and administrative process
will be made much easier and quicker if, as requested above, all the email addresses are provided.
Please advise us at the time if you have already reported the find to the Coroner.

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