NHER 23954 (Monument record) - Site of Late Saxon settlement and multi-period pottery

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Summary

This is the site of a Late Saxon settlement. Prehistoric flints, including a plano convex knife, and fragments of pottery dating from the late prehistoric to the medieval periods have been found by fieldwalking.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF70SW
Civil Parish BARTON BENDISH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

26 May 1987. Sites BB 766 to 768, context 2 to 4.
Fieldwalking, medium conditions.
Flints including Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife.
Prehistoric pottery.
Iron Age sherds.
Roman sherds.
Ipswich ware.
Thetford type ware in concentration and St Neots.
Medieval sherds including Grimston.
Undated sherds.
See list and plot in file.
Identified A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 21 August 1987.

3 March 1988. Field rewalked. Context 3.
List in file
A. Rogerson (NAU) January 1989

  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 766. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 767. BB.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 768. BB.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 10 2022 7:49AM

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