NHER 22661 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TM39NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1985. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 16.
Good conditions east part field under winter cereal. West part market garden, finds between rows of onions and potatoes. No concentrations.
Five flints: one blade, two flakes Neolithic/Bronze Age, one shatter piece, one very crude core not prehistoric? Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU).
Two Roman greyware.
One rim handmade pimply Middle Saxon form.
One rim sandy Ipswich.
One sherd pimply Ipswich.
One sherd coarse sandy Ipswich.
Ten Thetford type.
Forty five medieval unglazed including early medieval.
One late medieval/transitional.
One post medieval stoneware.
Three glazed red earthenware.
One post medieval with glaze over white slip.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1986.
April-July 1998. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks for replacement of electricity pylon towers (PPA 67).
No features or finds (except in some cases post medieval ditches - report does not specify at which sites).
See report (S2) for further information (including details of stratigraphy).
Documentary material associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2025.169).
E. Rose (NLA), 5 January 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 April 2015 and 31 August 2025.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF13903 *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 16. Hales.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF60774 Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.
- <S2> SNF57083 Unpublished Contractor Report: Hobbs, B. 1999. Report on a Watching Brief on the Trowse to Thurlton Pylon Replacement Scheme. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 469.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (7)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Mar 17 2026 8:43AM