NHER 30932 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric, Roman and medieval finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
October 1994-March 1995. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Fieldwalking in advance of development (Field C):
?Prehistoric burnt flints ('pot boilers').
87 prehistoric worked flints, 3 spalls, 1 blade, 3 cores, 1 core trimming flake, 5 notched flakes, 12 retouched flakes, 15 scrapers, 2 ?scrapers, 1 combination tool (notched scraper) and 2 knives.
1 ?Mesolithic ?microlith.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead.
4 Roman pottery sherds (3 greyware and 1 colour coated) and 1 tessera.
1 post-medieval coin.
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.
1996. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Roman Colchester one-piece brooch, spring missing, together with much of catchplate. Surface pitted. Thin tapering bow. 1st century AD.
1 ?medieval possible belt fitting. Hook with baluster mouldings and knob terminals, possibly broken at one end.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM) and S. Margeson (NCM).
H. Geake (NCM), 7 November 1996.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF65977 Map: Fieldwalking Map.
- --- 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 SNF65999 Unpublished Contractor Report: Emery, P. 1995.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.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
Object Types (18)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- COMBINATION TOOL (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- DEBITAGE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- KNIFE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (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)
- MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TESSERA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jan 23 2018 11:31AM