NHER 23123 (Find Spot record) - Undated, prehistoric and Late Iron Age finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1986 as part of the Fenland Survey recovered some prehistoric worked flints and bits of undated pot, while metal-detecting between 2012 and 2016 recovered an Early/Middle Bronze Age palstave; a Middle/Late Bronze Age spear; a Late Iron Age brooch.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

20 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Young cereal, well weathered soil.
MTW BY.
Odd flints and bit of undated pottery in northwest corner.
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 November 1986.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

June 2012. Metal-detecting. [1].
Early/Middle Bronze Age palstave.
Middle/Late Bronze Age spearhead.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 May 2019.

November 2016. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
Late Iron Age brooch.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 9 January 2017.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW BY. FENS.
  • --- Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • PALSTAVE (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SOCKETED SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 801 BC)
  • BROOCH (Late Iron Age - 50 BC to 20 BC)
  • POT (Undated)

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Record last edited

Oct 6 2020 10:00AM

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