NHER 22675 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flint flakes and fragments of medieval and post medieval pottery. Observation during the construction of a new electricity pylon may have recorded post medieval ditches.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM39NE
Civil Parish HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

January to February 1986. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 30.
Ploughed sandy soil, well weathered.

Two natural flint flakes but both retouched.
Three medieval unglazed.
Seven post medieval.
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 71).
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).
Previously recorded under NHER 22673.
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.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 30. Hales.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Hobbs, B. 1999. Report on a Watching Brief on the Trowse to Thurlton Pylon Replacement Scheme. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 469.
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 17 2026 8:43AM

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