NHER 51735 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints, Iron Age and Roman pottery and medieval coins

February-March 2006. Watching Brief and Metal-detecting Survey.
Monitoring and metal-detecting undertaken during topsoil stripping and trenching for Binham to Houghton St Giles water pipeline (Collection Units 204-208 and 229-250).
Finds comprised prehistoric worked flints, Iron Age pottery sherds, Roman pottery sherds and two medieval coins.
See report (S1) for further information. The results of this work are also noted in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.116).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 2 July 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2015 and 21 June 2019.

Before 30 June 2008. Stray Find.
Neolithic polished flint axe fragment.
See description in file.
E. Darch (NLA), 9 September 2008

Before 14 January 2009. Fieldwalking.
Surface finds. Found at [1]:
1 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blade.
1 ?Neolithic flint fabricator.
Found at [2]:
1 Late Neolithic polished flint axehead fragment.
1 undatable prehistoric flint ?piercer.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 February 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 July 2014.

Before 3 March 2009. Metal-detecting.
Prehistoric flint flake, Iron Age and Romano-British pot sherds, 21 Roman coins, brooch and hairpin.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 15 December 2011.

January 2011-May 2013. Metal-detecting.
Finds identified by HES but not recorded on the PAS database:
13 Roman copper alloy coins.
Finds recorded on the PAS database. [3]:
Undatable slaggy copper alloy casting waste.
Roman brooches.
Medieval strap-end.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy vessel fragment.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES) and A. Rogerson (HES), 10 July 2013.