NHER 59937 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

See NHER 13067 for details of cropmarks features identified in this field.

February 1981. Fieldwalking.
Strip approximately 20m wide walked down eastern edge of field (Context 2):
Neolithic/Bronze Age "flint industry".
Thick Roman pottery scatter with some tegulae (2nd-4th century).
A few Late Saxon Thetford-type ware pottery sherds.
Some medieval pottery sherds.
"Domestic refuse" (date not specified).
Information from [1]; finds not seen by NAU or NCM. See notes in file.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 December 2013.

Early 1985. Fieldwalking.
Systematic fieldwalking of 50m squares down eastern side of field (Contexts 3-6) and then larger areas over cropmarks and along southern side of field (Contexts 7-11). See map in file.

Context 3:
1 late prehistoric pottery sherd.
4 Roman pottery sherds (coarse wares).
1 ?Middle Saxon pottery sherd.
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford type ware).
3 medieval pottery sherds (unglazed).

Context 4:
1 undatable pottery sherd.
8 Roman pottery sherds (greyware).
2 Late Saxon pottery sherds (Thetford type ware).

Context 5:
20 Roman pottery sherds (greyware) and tile fragments.
1 ?Late Saxon pottery sherd (?Thetford type ware).
2 medieval pottery sherds (1 unglazed, 1 Grimston glazed).

Context 6:
24 Roman pottery sherds (1 Nene Valley colour-coated, 23 coarse; 2nd-3rd century).
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford type ware).
Undatable iron slag.

Context 7:
11 Roman pottery sherds (coarse wares, 3rd-4th century, including bead and flanged bowl) and 1 brick fragment.

Context 8:
1 Roman pottery sherd (greyware).

Context 9:
1 Mesolithic flint blade.
40 Roman pottery sherds (34 coarse ware, including some Nar Valley, 3rd-4th century, 4 Nene Valley colour-coated, 1 East Anglian mortarium and 1 Spanish globular amphora).
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford type ware).

Context 10:
16 Roman pottery sherds (13 coarse ware, 3rd-4th century and 3 Nene Valley colour-coated).
5 Late Saxon pottery sherds (Thetford-type ware).

Context 11:
2 undatable pottery sherds.
5 Roman pottery sherds (coarse ware).
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford-type ware).
2 medieval pottery sherds (Early Medieval ware).
1 ?medieval pottery sherd (shell-gritted ?Early Medieval ware).

Flint identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU), Roman finds by T. Gregory (NAU) and other finds by A. Rogerson (NAU). See list in file.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 December 2013.

October 1986. Fieldwalking.
Further finds recovered by [1]:

Context 3:
Roman brick fragments (not collected).

Context 7:
4 undatable prehistoric worked flints.
2 Neolithic/Iron Age pottery sherds (with angular quartz temper).

Context 9 (eastern part):
30+ Roman pottery sherds (20+ local coarse ware, 3 samian, 2 Nene Valley colour-coated, 1 Oxfordshire red ware).
1 medieval pottery sherd (Grimston green-glazed).
2 millstone grit querns (one secondarily squared and drilled, perhaps as a pivot stone).

Context 10:
5 Roman pottery sherds (1 shell-tempered, 4 coarse).

Context 11:
5 Roman pottery sherds (1 chalk-tempered flagon, 4 coarse ware).
3 Late Saxon pottery sherds (Thetford-type ware).
3 medieval pottery sherds (early medieval unglazed).

Context 12 (between cropmark in Context 9 and edge of Contexts 5 and 6):
1 Neolithic/Iron Age pottery sherd.
30+ Roman pottery sherds (20+ local coarse ware, 1 Nene Valley colour-coated, 1 Oxfordshire imitation f38).

Context 13 (within area of Context 9, but west of cropmarks):
2 Iron Age pottery sherds.
10+ Roman pottery sherds (1 Spanish globular amphora, 1 chalk-tempered flagon, 2 Samian, 1 East Anglian mortarium and grey wares including 2 with burnished black slip). A concentration of earlier material (2nd century), in contrast to elsewhere in the field, which is largely 3rd-4th century.

Finds identified and retained by [1]. See list in file.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 December 2013.