NHER 39823 (Monument record) - Bronze Age/Iron Age features and multi-period finds, Cringleford Park and Ride
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG10NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CRINGLEFORD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
| Civil Parish | HETHERSETT, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
November 2003. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey and Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of Cringleford Park and Ride site. Field survey (Contexts 1 to 113) followed by excavation of twenty-seven trenches (Contexts 114 to 527).
Finds recoverd during the field survey included two scatters of prehistoric flint artefacts, along with burnt flints, a piece of possible Roman pottery and medieval and post-medival pottery and metalwork.
Trial trenching revealed evidence of prehistoric activity constituting pits and post holes dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age periods, and many features included worked flint and prehistoric pottery.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 6 March 2007.
May 2004. Strip Map and Sample Excavation.
Excavation following topsoil stripping at Cringleford Park and Ride site.
From Context 1000.
Details to come.
J. Allen (NLA), 25 May 2004.
A combined archive comprising material from both phases of archaeological work at this site has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.98).
P. Watkins (HES), 18 May 2019.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF55422 Unpublished Contractor Report: Birks, C. 2004. An Archaeological Evaluation at Cringleford Park and Ride, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 890.
- <S2> SNF81947 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. 2004. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2003. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt III pp 573-588. p 577.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (21)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- LINEAR FEATURE? (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT? (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POST HOLE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- HEARTH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- GULLY (Unknown date)
- PIT (Unknown date)
- POST HOLE (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Object Types (28)
- BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- END SCRAPER (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SIDE SCRAPER (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Unknown date)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD? to 1900 AD?)
- RIVET (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- SHEET (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- OYSTER SHELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WINE BOTTLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jun 23 2023 11:16AM