NHER 17781 (Find Spot record) - Undated ditch and multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking and metal-detecting on this site between 1945 and 2017 recovered a range of prehistoric worked flints, including pieces of Upper Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age, Mesolithic/Early Neolithic, Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date; Iron Age, Roman, Early Saxon, medieval, medieval/post-medieval, and post-medieval pottery sherds; medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval brick fragments; Roman coins; undatable slag fragments and a Late Saxon key.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG10NE
Civil Parish BAWBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Tools

'Soon after' 1945. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] at Context 2 [2]:
Fifty flint tools.
Three Neolithic knives.
Large flake with bifacial distal end used as chopper.
Hammerstone.
Nine scrapers including 1 hollow scraper.
Large flake with coarse retouch.
Thirty flakes, some with slight retouch.
Four flakes with some elaborate retouch.
I.D. J. Wymer (NAU), February 1989.
Subsequently donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.329.1) - see descriptions produced by P. Robins (NCM) [11].
W. Milligan (NCM), 18 May 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 August 2016.

1981. Fieldwalking. Context 1, immediately around grid reference. [2 and 3].
Roman coins and pottery (stated to have been reported to A. Gregory (NAU)).
Traces of fire - burnt clay.
Late Saxon copper alloy key, (S1).
I.D. S. Margeson (NAU), 19 November 1981.
W. Milligan (NCM), 19 November 1981.

1989. Metal detecting. [4].
Follis of Constantius II GLORIA EXERCITVS.

September 2012. Fieldwalking. [6].
Field walked in sixteen approximate east-west aligned transects. Find recovered included:
1 undatable prehistoric flint blade.
1 ?Palaeolithic patinated flint flake
14 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blades and 2 retouched blades.
6 Neolithic retouched flakes, 3 scraper, 1 side scraper and 2 blade and 1 notched blade.
56 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flakes (some with retouch), 1 discoidal core, 1 scraper, 1 end scraper, 1 ?borer and 1 notched blade.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint thumbnail scraper and 1 unfinished barbed and tanged arrowhead.
26 Roman pottery sherds.
1 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
1 undatable slag fragment.
Information from PAS import.
See finder's map (S2) in file.
A. Beckham (HES), 30 May 2013 and P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2013.

28 May 2013. Metal-detecting. [7].
3 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flakes.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
2 Roman pottery sherds.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 October 2013.

September 2013. Metal-detecting. [8].
5 Roman pottery sherds.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 6 February 2014.

September 2015. Fieldwalking. [9].
Neolithic flint ?arrowhead.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake tools and debitage.
See finder's map.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 3 June 2016.

May 2016. Fieldwalking. [10].
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint flake.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 23 June 2016. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 February 2018.

April 2017. Fieldwalking. [12].
2 Iron Age pottery sherds.
14 Roman pottery sherds and 4 tile fragments.
1 Early Saxon pottery sherd.
1 medieval brick fragment.
1 medieval/post-medieval brick fragment.
19 post-medieval pottery sherds.
Information from PAS import.
See Unpublished Document (S3).
A. Beckham (HES), 23 January 2018. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 February 2018.

  • --- Photograph: 2000. JRR 7-11.
  • --- Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Unknown. 1981. Drawing of a a Late Saxon copper alloy key.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S2> Map: Finder's Map.
  • <S3> Unpublished Document: Press, J. 2017. Bawburgh Village Hall Fieldwalk.
  • CHOPPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age - 40000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age - 20000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Neolithic - 20000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ASSEMBLAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • NOTCHED BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • NOTCHED BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • NOTCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • THUMB NAIL SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SLAG (Early Iron Age to Mid 20th Century - 800 BC to 1950 AD)
  • POT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
  • XFIRED CLAY (Undated)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 50 AD to 400 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 450 AD to 600 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1400 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
  • POT (Medieval to 17th Century - 1450 AD to 1700 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval to 16th Century - 1500 AD to 1600 AD)
  • POT (16th Century to 18th Century - 1550 AD to 1800 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 10 2026 3:03PM

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