NHER 39970 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 2003 recovered prehistoric worked flints and many pot boilers. Also found were fragments of Iron Age, Middle and Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery and medieval tile and brick. Metal-detecting in 2017 recovered a medieval buckle, a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel spout and a post-medieval coin.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM39NW
Civil Parish SISLAND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

2003. Fieldwalking in 10 by 10m squares, field A.
?Iron Age, ?Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds. Concentration of medieval and early post medieval sherds at north end.
Medieval roof tile and brick.
?Mesolithic, Early Neolithic, Late Neolithic and undatable prehistoric worked flints.
Many pot boilers, especially in south.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 December 2003.

June 2017. Metal-detecting. [1].
Medieval buckle, and a harness pendant with a counter-relief design of a enthroned king with sceptre (S1).
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel spout.
Post-medieval coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017 and 1 March 2018 and P. Watkins (HES), 8 January 2024.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2017. Drawing of a medieval harness pendant. Film. 2:1.
  • BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1150 AD to 1400 AD)
  • HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1600 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1554 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 10 2024 9:51PM

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