NHER 31789 (Monument record) - Potentially prehistoric pits

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Summary

Excavations carried out before the construction of three reservoirs recorded two pits of possible prehistoric date.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG10SE
Civil Parish KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

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.

  • --- Fiche: Exists.
  • --- Slide: Various. Slide.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 1996. Evaluation Excavations at Intwood Hall. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 169.
  • <S2> 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.
  • 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

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