NHER 23670 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds from field between Thornham Road and String Drain, Fenland Survey and Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline

23 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Context 2 at 7223 9621.
Small group of flint northwest corner of field.
Remainder of field not walked as recently rolled.
R. Silvester (NAU), 30 April 1987.

6 November 1987. Further fieldwalking in weathered ploughsoil, young winter cereal. MTW FA.
Context 1 over whole field.
Scatter of fairly prolific Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints, few medieval sherds and one prehistoric flint gritted sherd. No concentrations.
23 April 1987.
Also pot boilers found in southeast corner.
F. Healy (NAU).

Context 3 at 7244 9617. Fieldwalking a t 3.4m OD on edge of drop to old stream course, sandy soil.MTW FC.
Small scatter of flints over an area 16m east to west x 15m north to south.
R. Silvester (NAU), 6 November 1987.

For full details of wares, flint types, etc. see (S3).

February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Southwest corner of site = Context 4, edge of Middle Saxon concentration (NHER 23120 Context 2).
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.74).
E. Rose (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 December 2022.

Before 6 June 2012. Metal-detecting. [1].
Post-medieval copper alloy 1 ounce weight.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 12 March 2013.

November 2016. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 Middle Saxon coin.
Early to Late Saxon tweezers.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 6 June 2016 and 3 August 2017.