NHER 23125 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric occupation site on field north of Thornham Road, south of String Drain, east of Cut-Off Channel

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric burnt and worked flints and pieces of medieval pot. A concentration of material indicative of prehistoric occupation was recorded on a spur of greensand soil. Metal-detecting in 2017 recovered a Late Iron Age/Roman brooch.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NW
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

19 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Winter cereal, well weathered soil.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW BW.
Odd flints, and sherds probably medieval, though concentration of flints at 7191 9605, this is not enough for a
'site'.

Context 2 at 7183 9626. MTW 74.
Sparse concentration of flints and a few pot boilers on spur of greensand soil jutting out into peat filled hollow. 28m north to south x 25m east to west at 3.7m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 November 1986.

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

November 2016. Metal-detecting. [1].
Late Iron Age/Roman bow brooch.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 18 October 2024.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 7. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW BW. 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)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 25 AD to 60 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 18 2024 12:29PM

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