NHER 24465 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of undated rectangular enclosure, prehistoric flints and pot boilers
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
22 June 1975. Ordnance Survey aerial photography.
Positive cropmarks.
Possible sub-rectangular enclosure.
Rather dubious. May just be modern cultivation marks or previous field boundary.
D. Voisey (NLA) 13 March 1995.
18 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking. Weathered plough soil, beans; good conditions for context 4 only.
Context 1: general scatter; odd flints and prehistoric pottery across field. Site SRY BF.
Flints are gunflints - F. Healy (NAU).
Context 2 at 6121 9469: concentration of pot boilers, sparse, and Roman pottery, sparse, on edge of island. 24m northwest-southeast by 23m northeast-southwest, at 1.5m OD. Site SRY 19.
Context 3 at 6108 9491: concentration of pot boilers, sparse, on side of island - sandy patch. 34m northeast-southwest by 25m northwest-southeast, at 1.9m OD. Site SRY 20.
Context 4 at 6096 9497: concentration of pot boilers against dyke side and probably truncated by it. A couple of
flints as well. Less than 16m northwest/southeast by 33m northeast-southwest. Site SRY 21.
R. Silvester (NAU) 22 April 1988 and 18 March 1988.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF16281 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 19. FENS.
- --- SNF16283 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 20. FENS.
- --- SNF16284 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 21. FENS.
- --- SNF16322 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY BF. FENS.
- --- SNF47963 Aerial Photograph: OS 75-270-004.
- --- SNF47964 Aerial Photograph: OS 75-270-005.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (6)
- 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 (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT BOILER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Sep 20 2016 11:36AM