NHER 25265 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age pottery scatter and other, Late Bronze Age to medieval finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL99NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | MERTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
March 1989. Metal-detecting.
Found on surface of ploughed field at [1] (Context 1). Grid reference supplied by finder [2].
Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment.
This discovery is noted in (S1).
D. Gurney (NLA), 27 April 1989.
Unknown date but probably late 2003. Fieldwalking. Site extended to whole field.
Identified at Context 2 (finder's Site 14):
Iron Age pottery scatter (114 flint-gritted sherds recovered).
Other finds recovered in the vicinity of Context 2 included:
?Prehistoric burnt flints.
Prehistoric worked flints including scrapers and blades.
1 Middle Saxon pottery sherd.
14 medieval pottery sherds.
All objects identified by finder, see notes and sketch map in file [3]. The sketch map suggests that potentially Iron Age pottery sherds were probably also recovered in the eastern part of the field.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 October 2016.
June 2012. Metal-detecting. [4].
Found near Context 1:
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 October 2013.
Associated Sources (4)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (9)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD? to 850 AD?)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1300 AD)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Nov 9 2016 3:45PM