NHER 51457 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

A fieldwalking and metal-detecting survey of part of this field in 2008 recovered a small number of objects including a Roman or post-medieval tile fragment; medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds and a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe fragment.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG13SW
Civil Parish	CORPUSTY AND SAXTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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March-April 2008. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed route of Sheringham Shoals Offshore Windfarm Grid Connection (Field 37).
Finds recovered included:
1 ?Roman ?imbrex fragment (or possibly from a post-medieval pantile).
1 medieval pottery sherd.
1 post-medieval pottery sherd and 1 clay tobacco pipe fragment.
1 undatable copper alloy unidentified object and 1 iron unidentified object.
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), 20 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 63422.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 June 2019.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF72567 Unpublished Contractor Report: Westall, S. and Smith, M. 2008. An Archaeological Fieldwalking and Metal-detector Survey Along the Route of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Grid Connection. NAU Archaeology. 1808a.
<S2> SNF81775 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Hoggett, R. 2010. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 2009. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLVI Pt I pp 135-147. p 146.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (6)

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
ROOF TILE (Roman to 19th Century - 43 AD? to 1900 AD?)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 11 2022 2:06PM