NHER 31789 (Monument record) - Potentially prehistoric pits
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG10SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
March 1996. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation at site of new reservoirs.
Two sub-square pits with charcoal-rich fills. Possible prehistoric, although a single retouched flint flake was the only find recovered.
Finds recovered from the general area of the trenches included prehistoric flint flakes and scrapers, an iron nail, lead shot and lead and copper alloy scrap.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.274).
See NHER 60671 for details of features uncovered in vicinity of Intwood Hall.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 July 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015 and 5 December 2022.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF8808 Fiche: Exists.
- --- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
- <S1> SNF57002 Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 1996. Evaluation Excavations at Intwood Hall. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 169.
- <S2> SNF66779 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1997. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1996. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt IV pp 547-564. p 554.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (3)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SHOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Aug 14 2023 9:04AM