NHER 23385 (Monument record) - Iron Age and Roman settlement on field between Hythe Road and Hanging Drove

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Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flints and prehistoric, Iron Age and medieval pieces of pot. A concentration of Iron Age material was recorded and evidence of a possible hearth was noted. This is indicative of Iron Age settlement. A concentration of Roman material was noted during later fieldwalking before the construction of a pipeline. This is part of NHER 22364, a Roman settlement.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL79SW
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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5 February 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Well weathered ploughsoil.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW DA.
Flints, prehistoric, Iron Age and medieval sherds across field.
Also Roman sherds.

Context 2 at 7230 9512. MTW 112.
Concentration of Iron Age sherds with sparse bone, sparse flint which need not necessarily be contemporary. Sparse pot boilers and sparse broken pebbles. Patches of grey ashy soil being ploughed up and many very small fragments of gravel set on a very gentle east sloping ridge close to peat.
Also medieval sherds and roofing tile.
R. Silvester (NAU), 5 February 1987.

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 TL 7211 9504. Other half of site NHER 22364 Context 8.
Iron Age and Roman pot scatter.
See details under NHER 22364. See also reports (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)

--- SNF15836 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 112. FENS.
--- SNF16043 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW DA. 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 SNF64183 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992.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.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (8)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Related NHER Records (1)

All Groups: NHER 22364 - Related to: Prehistoric occupation and Roman settlement, Prehistoric, Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds (Find Spot)

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Methwold (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Dec 6 2022 7:38AM