NHER 51507 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Metal detecting in 2008 recovered a Romano-British furniture fitting. A fieldwalking survey between 2002 and 2003 recovered flint flakes and burnt flint; possible Roman ceramic building material; Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery; medieval brick, post-medieval ceramic building material and pieces of post-medieval bottle glass.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG12NW
Civil Parish SALLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

February - March 2008. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman furniture stud.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA). See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 April 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 15 May 2014.

November 2002 - January 2003. Fieldwalking survey. Bacton to King's Lynn pipeline plot 115.
Finds recovered during fieldwalking included five flint flakes; 20 pieces of burnt flint; three pieces of possible Roman ceramic building material; Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery; a fragment of medieval brick; post-medieval ceramic building material; and two pieces of post-medieval bottle glass. The three former field boundaries shown on the 1885 ordnance survey map were not corroborated by the survey.
See (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 20 February 2010.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: [Unknown]. 2003. Bacton to Kings Lynn Proposed Gas Pipeline. Archaeological Field Reconnaissance, Fieldwalking, Metal Detecting and Geophysical Survey. Network Archaeology. 184.
  • BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUILDING MATERIAL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD?)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOTTLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUILDING MATERIAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2025 10:23AM

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