NHER 5964 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flints and multi-period pottery

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Summary

Roman pottery found in 1935. More recent fieldwalking recovered a ?Mesolithic end scraper, a number of later prehistoric worked flints, and Beaker, Roman and medieval pottery sherds.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL88SE
Civil Parish	BRETTENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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1935.
Roman pottery found on this site.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

March 1997. Systematic fieldwalking.
See (S1).
Various prehistoric worked flints including a potentially Mesolithic end scraper and a Neolithic transverse arrowhead. The remaining pieces were less closely datable. These included a flake knife, a blade, retouched flakes, hammerstones and a possible core rejuvenation flake. A number of these pieces including the end scraper are illustrated in (S1).
Beaker, Roman and medieval sherds also recovered.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 May 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 May 2013.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Brettenham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 SE 44 [2].
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57145 Unpublished Document: Brooker, P. W.. 1997. Little Ouse Valley Study, Report 2; Little Snarehill, Brettenham, Norfolk.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (10)

CORE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
HAMMERSTONE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
KNIFE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
END SCRAPER (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)