NHER 11078 (Monument record) - Prehistoric flint implements and Roman coin

1955. Stray Find.
Near Grove Farm.
Retouched blade, ?unfinished knife. Probably Bronze Age.
Information from record card (S1). This discovery was also reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 December 2022.

1986. Fieldwalking.
Context 1, general scatter over field. Many flints and pot boilers.
See file for extract of dissertation (S3) by [1] who walked field at 15 to 20m intervals (full dissertation in parish file).
E. Rose (NLA) 10 January 1990.

October 1992-December 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Field survey on proposed route of bypass (Field 005):
No finds.
See report (S4) for further details. The results of this survey are also noted in (S5).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.178).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015 and 5 December 2022.

March-May 1995. Watching Brief.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Observation and metal-detecting of stripped surface.
No archaeologically-significant features observed and no finds recovered.
See report (S6) for further information and NHER 31423 for details of unstratified metal objects recovered from relocated topsoil being used to form banks at unspecified locations along the bypass route. This work is noted in (S7).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.333).
P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015. Amended 16 December 2022.

1997. Metal Detecting.
One Roman coin. See list in file.
Identified by J.A. Davies (NCM), January 1998.
K. Sussams (NCM), 19 January 1998.