NHER 30660 (Monument record) - Iron Age to Early Saxon features, prehistoric to post medieval finds scatter

April 1994. Metal detecting. North of pit.
Post medieval coin and token. See list in file.
Medieval ring brooch in shape of sexfoil. Border of raised dots within a groove. Diameter 21.4mm.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 June 1994.

July 1994. Metal detecting. Area extended.
One Roman and two medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 September 1994.

August - September 1994. Metal detecting. Along west side of north to south road [1] - except stater.
One Roman, four medieval, three post medieval coins.
Two post medieval tokens, one medieval or post medieval coin.
See list in file.
Gold sovereign of 1821 (not seen NLA) (photo) = context 2. Formerly wrongly recorded as Iron Age gold stater - see NHER 30875.
Lead spindle whorl, Late Saxon or early medieval. Biconical with cast decoration on both sides in relief - dots with circles around shield-like motifs.
Hod Hill brooch, fragment of lower bow and upper foot (tinned) and of catch plate. Mid 1st century AD.
Two medieval strap ends, two piece, with pointed knops. Length 40mm (with rocker-arm decoration) and 23mm (plain).
Medieval buckle plate, three rivets.
Three piece medieval strap end with simple acorn knop, two rivets. Circular upper part. Concave attachment edge.
15th-16th century cast cauldron foot. Five 'toes' with transverse cordon.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM) and A. Rogerson (NLA).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 October 1994.

September - October 1994. Metal detecting.
One medieval coin, one post medieval coin, one post medieval token.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM). See lists in file.
Two piece medieval bronze strap end, two rivets at shaped open end; rocker arm ornament on front; containing considerable amount of textile; closed end broken.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 4 November 1994.

February - March 1995. Metal detecting. Generally located finds.
Roman brooch, knob.
Medieval belt mount.
Post medieval weight, coins and tokens.
See details in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 March 1995.

March - April 1995. Metal detecting. General finds.
One post medieval coin, two post medieval jettons, one post medieval token.
Medieval D-shaped buckle, gilded plate with three rivet holes (one rivet), two transverse mouldings on pin near loop.
Two early post medieval harness/belt mounts with two spikes each, one lozengiform with oval opening in centre, one lentoid with lobed terminal.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) and J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 May 1995

October-November 1995. Watching Brief.
Undertaken during topsoil stripping for quarry extension. Contexts 3 and 4.
Two features were identified within the stripped area. A ditch running north-south was later identified as a field boundary removed in 1976. A truncated pit was also recorded and was found to contain pottery thought to be of possible Early to Middle Iron Age date.
See report (S1) for further details.
H. Wallis (NAU), 12 February 1996.

September 2006. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey. Contexts 1-98 used.
A total of 29 worked flints were recovered. Just under half of the flint assemblage comprised unmodified flint flakes likely to date from the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age. The remainder included two cores, a single scraper and a small blade. A fine example of a plano-convex knife was also found, and is likely to be of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. An elongated leaf-shaped arrowhead is thought to date to the earlier Neolithic period.
Eight sherds of pottery were recovered, including a single Roman sherd, one medieval sherd and six pieces of post medieval pottery. Post medieval ceramic building material was also found.
Eighteen metal objects were recorded, including a medieval jetton, a medieval vessel rim, a medieval armorial horse pendant and a post medieval cloth seal.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.116).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 11 December 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2019.

September-October 2006. Trial Trenching.
Excavation of 29 trenches. Contexts 100-165.
A single north-south aligned ditch was dated to the Roman period as it contained 24 sherds of Roman pottery.
Early Saxon remains include a probable sunken featured building (grubenhaus), measuring at least 2m in length and 4m wide. 24 sherds of Early Saxon pottery were recovered from the fill of this irregular feature, including fabric from four vessels, with one rim showing signs of sooting. The pottery fabric and form suggest a date in the 6th century or later, and the vessels present are typical for a domestic assemblage of this date. A sample from the fill of this feature was found to contain wheat and barley grains, burnt bone and fired or burnt fired clay. A post hole was excavated within the south-western part of the sunken featured building and samples taken from its fill produced cereal grains, charcoal, burnt or fired clay and vitrified material. To the west of the possible sunken featured building the terminus of a probable linear ditch or pit was recorded, but it was not possible to date this feature.
Post medieval remains comprised field boundary ditches, many of which are visible on 18th to 20th century maps.
Undated features comprised linear ditches. Although it was not possible to date these features, they clearly indicate that livestock management activities have taken place within this area. One of the recorded linear features coincides with a cropmark visible on a photograph taken by the RAF in 1946.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3)
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.116).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 11 December 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2019.

October-November 2006. Strip Map and Sample Excavation.
From Context 200.
Details to come.
J. Allen (NLA), 19 October 2006.