NHER 25714 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking before and observations during constrution of the Southern Bypass recovered prehistoric flints and Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and medieval pottery fragments.

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Map sheet	TG20NE
Civil Parish	KIRBY BEDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1980s.
Fieldwalking in advance of Norwich Southern Bypass. 'Field 87'.
Iron Age, Roman sherds; Ipswich and Thetford ware; medieval sherds; flints.
For full details of finds, including modern items not included in record, weather conditions, etc., see Norwich Southern Bypass folder.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 February 1990.

1991-2. Watching brief. Norwich Southern Bypass. Sites 104-5.
Late Saxon to Medieval sherds, flints.
See unpublished document (S2) for further details.
See published monograph (S3) for summary of watching brief work.
E. Rose (NLA), July 1992

1995. Earthwork Survey.
Survey of former chalk workings within Whitlingham Woods. See plan (S1).
Chance find of sherd of Late medieval/Transitional sherd on original ground surface near top of cliff face at TG 2724 0781.
B. Cushion (NLA) May 1995.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF93849 Illustration: Cushion, B. 1995. Plan of earthworks at Whitlingham Woods. Film. 1:1250.
<S2> SNF57633 Unpublished Document: Bown, J.. 1992?. Norwich Southern Bypass Watching Brief: Site Lists and Annotated Maps. Sites 104-5, Contract 4, Map 4.
<S3> SNF50478 Monograph: Ashwin, T. and Bates S. 2000. Norwich Southern Bypass, Part I: Excavations at Bixley, Caistor St Edmund, Trowse. East Anglian Archaeology. No 91. pp 210-216.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (7)

FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
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)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)