NHER 21381 (Monument record) - Undated mound

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Summary

An undated mound was noted in 1985. Its function is not known, but it may have been an enclosure of some kind.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF51NE
Civil Parish CLENCHWARTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

15 April 1985.
Mound of lighter silt than that surrounding it. About 22m diameter and up to 0.6m high on east side. Possibly cut by dyke (now infilled) on west side. Some shell mixed with silt otherwise no cultural debris.
R.J. Silvester (NAU) 15 April 1985.

On 1989 OS air photograph (copy in file) this appears as a white pennanular narrow mark on top of a winding dark mark, presumably the dykes mentioned.
B.Cushion and E.Rose (NAU) June 1994.

FOR FULL DETAILS OF WARES, FLINT TYPES ETC SEE FENLAND FOLDERS.

August 2016
Enclosure visible on (S1), labelled sheepfold.
X. Kyriakou (HES), 4 August 2016.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. OS 89.052.473.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45. p 53.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. Ordnance Survey 6 inch map.
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 4 2016 1:13PM

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