NHER 34820 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age terret

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Summary

A watching brief carried out in 1998 on the site of a electricity pylon recorded no archaeological finds or features. Metal detecting in 2001 recovered an Iron Age terret.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TM49NW
Civil Parish	THURLTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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April-July 1998. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks for replacement of electricity pylon towers (PPA 82).
No features or finds (except in some cases post medieval ditches - report does not specify at which sites).
See report (S1) for further information (including details of stratigraphy).
Documentary material associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2025.169).
E. Rose (NLA), 5 January 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 April 2015 and 31 August 2025.

October 2001. Metal detecting.
Found near previously mapped location of NHER 34820 ([1]):
1 Iron Age terret.
See drawing (S2) and description in file.
S. Ashley (NLA), 6 December 2001.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57083 Unpublished Contractor Report: Hobbs, B. 1999. Report on a Watching Brief on the Trowse to Thurlton Pylon Replacement Scheme. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 469.
<S2> SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Object Types (1)

HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Thurlton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Aug 31 2025 11:44AM