NHER 34692 (Monument record) - Bronze Age burnt mound and undated ditches, Beach Lane Pumping Station

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Summary

An evaluation and excavation in advance of development in 1999 revealed an ancient watercourse, a Bronze Age mound of burnt flints and undated but pre-medieval ditches.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG14SW
Civil Parish WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

September 1999. Trial Trench and Excavation.
Evaluation and excavation on site of new pumping station site. Contexts 1 to 57.
Revealed a palaeochannel, a pot boiler mound and ditches, deeply buried but undated pre medieval.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.177).
D. Gurney (NLA), 3 January 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 April 2015 and 26 April 2019.

  • --- Fiche: Exists.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Timms, S. 2000. Report on Archaeological Works at Weybourne, Kelling and Sheringham for Anglian Water, 1999. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 466.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2000. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1999. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt III pp 521-543. p 541.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT BOILER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • QUERN (Undated)
  • SLAG (Undated)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)

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Record last edited

Apr 26 2019 11:59PM

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