NHER 35198 (Monument record) - Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age finds and features and post-medieval pit
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL88NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
June 2000. Watching Brief.
Monitoring during reservoir construction. Contexts 1-14.
Revealed an Early Neolithic pit and a number of other potentially prehistoric pits, one of which produced a sherd of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Beaker pottery.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2). The prehistoric pits are also discussed in (S3) and (S4).
D. Gurney, (NLA) 24 October 2000.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
- <S1> SNF51021 Unpublished Contractor Report: Birks, C. 2000. Report on an an Archaeological Watching Brief at Hall Farm Reservoir, Croxton. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 518.
- <S2> SNF82555 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2001. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2000. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt IV pp 707-728. p 711.
- <S3> SNF76788 Thesis: Garrow, D.. 2006. Pits, Settlement and Deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia. during the Neolithic and Early Pits, Settlement and Deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia.
- <S4> SNF88205 Article in Serial: Garrow, D. 2007. Placing Pits: Landscape Occupation and Depositional Practice During the Neolithic in East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 73 pp 1-24.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (9)
- PIT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- PIT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POST HOLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- PIT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FEATURE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Object Types (17)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DENTICULATE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BEAKER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BURNT FLINT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- BEAKER (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- BURNT FLINT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
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Record last edited
Apr 20 2015 3:39PM