NHER 30931 (Find Spot record) - Worked flint, pot boilers, Roman sherds and a medieval seal matrix
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1994. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Fieldwalking in advance of development (Field B):
?Prehistoric burnt flints ('pot boilers').
52 prehistoric flint flakes, 1 spall, 1 blade, 1 truncated blade, 2 cores, 5 notched flakes, 10 retouched flakes, 2 piercers, 1 denticulate, 7 scrapers and 1 ?scraper.
3 Roman pottery sherds (greyware).
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 25 November 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 May 2014.
February-March 2003. Metal-detecting.
1 medieval seal matrix with lug made from a buckle pin (has a inscription) (S3).
Identified by S. Ashley (NLA). See description in secondary file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 April 2003. Updated by J. Page (HES), 27 February 2014.
The Roman material at this site may be connected to the Roman kilns located and partially excavated to the north (NHER 31108).
H. Hamilton (NLA), 26 November 2008.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF65977 Map: Fieldwalking Map.
- --- SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF65999 Unpublished Contractor Report: Emery, P. 1995. Report of the Archaeological Survey for Broadland Park (Proposed Development at Heath Farm, Postwick). Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 121.
- <S2> SNF59457 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1996. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1995. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 397-412. p 407.
- <S3> SNF88135 Photograph: 2003. LFW 27-29 Medieval seal matrix..
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (15)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- DEBITAGE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- DENTICULATE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- RETOUCHED BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Jan 23 2018 11:31AM