NHER 51451 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

March-April 2008. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Sheringham Shoals Offshore Windfarm Grid Connection (Field 8).
Finds recovered included:
1 prehistoric retouched flint flake.
2 Late Saxon pottery sherds.
15 medieval pottery sherds.
1 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
1 ?medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
1 post-medieval pottery sherd, 2 pantiles, 2 copper alloy buttons, 1 washer and 1 clay tobacco pipe fragment.
1 ?post-medieval roof tile.
1 undatable copper alloy wire fragment, 1 copper alloy ?strap fitting, 1 copper alloy sheet rolled around iron core, 1 iron rod, 1 iron unidentified object, and 1 lead unidentified object.
A dense spread of probable post-medieval or modern ceramic building material was noted near the north-eastern entrance to the field, but was not collected.
See report (S1) for further details. This work is also noted in (S2)
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.361).
S. Howard (NLA), 19 November 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2019.

The results of trial trenching in 2008 and a watching brief maintained during subsequent groundworks in 2009/2010 are now recorded under NHER 63416.
P. Watkins (HES), 8 June 2019.