NHER 12776 (Monument record) - Bronze Age ring ditches and Neolithic flint working site
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described below are now recorded as NHER 52302 (the barrow cemetery as whole) and NHER 52303-5 (the individual barrows).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 June 2010.
29 June 1976. NAU air photography (AP1).
Cropmark of ring ditch, and fragment of another (confused by frost polygons).
E.Rose (NAU) 12 September 1977.
Spring 1980. Fieldwalking.
Found in drilled field (finder's Site 333c):
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scatter comprising 12 flakes, 1 scraper, 1 blade core and 1 large blade.
Identified by compiled by A. J. Lawson (NAU) 10 September 1980.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 April 2014.
1982-1983. Fieldwalking.
Further finds, retained by finder:
2 Mesolithic flint tranchet axes, 1 ?forgery of tranchet axe
1 flint blade core and 5 blades of unspecified date.
Also 300-400 other flints from same site not seen.
Identified and compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 1 September 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 April 2014.
30 June 1990. NAU air photography.
A third ring ditch added to west end.
D.Edwards (NAU).
See 6 inch and 25 inch overlays. Map in file.
13 July 1993. NAU air photography (AP2).
Only two of the three recorded ring ditches are visible on the photographs.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 February 2001.
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks described above are now recorded as NHER 52302 (the barrow cemetery as whole) and NHER 52303-5 (the individual barrows).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 June 2010.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF12839 Aerial Photograph: TG2305 AFT-AFV,AEY-AFA,AGA,AGD,AGE.
- <S2> SNF49407 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1993. TG 2405ADA, TG 2305AGH; TG 2306T - V.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC WORKING SITE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
Object Types (9)
- BLADE CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Apr 1 2022 10:48AM