NHER 23213 (Monument record) - Prehistoric occupation site in field south of Thornham Road north of wood

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flint and a concentration of prehistoric burnt flints that may be indicative of occupation. Later fieldwalking before the laying of a pipeline recovered pieces of Middle Saxon pottery that are an outlying part of the concentration recorded as NHER 23120.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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23 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Ploughed and partly weathered.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW CQ.
Flints.

Context 2 at 7220 9584. MTW 88.
Small concentration of pot boilers, sparse. No flints on gravelly loam slope. 13m east to west x 14m north to south.
R. Silvester (NAU), 23 December 1986.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).

February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Context 3 at [1].
Part of Middle Saxon concentration of which main area is NHER 23120 Context 2. See that site for details.
See also report (S3) and (S4).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.74).
E. Rose (NLA), 13 May 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 December 2022.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF15960 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 88. FENS.
--- SNF16033 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CQ. FENS.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
<S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S3> SNF64183 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34.
<S4> SNF64182 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. The Wellington Plantation - Stoke Ferry Pipeline. A Summary of Archaeological Work undertaken on the route of the Pipeline. February-August 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 29.