NHER 60683 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints and Roman pottery

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Summary

In 2000 a fieldwalking survey was undertaken in the western part of this field in order to recover evidence that may relate to a series of previously identified, potentially Roman cropmark features (NHER 12984). This work identified thin scatters of prehistoric worked flints and Roman pottery, the later concentrated in the north-western corner of the field - in the area of the cropmarks.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF84SW
Civil Parish BURNHAM OVERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

2000. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Non-collection fieldwalking undertaken as part of archaeological assessment of Holkham Estate (Field 10).
To the east of Burnham Overy Staithe, a set of undated cropmarks could represent house sites or paddocks. The west part of the field, some 200 by 400m was walked in small transects in an attempt to define and characterise undated cropmark features that could represent house sites or paddocks (NHER 12984).
The finds came mostly from over the cropmarks and were:
Thin scatter of prehistoric flints from over the walked area.
Thin concentration of Roman greyware sherds in the north-west corner of the field, over the cropmarks.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
K. Penn (NAU) 2 March 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 April 2015.

  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 2000. The Holkham Estate, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Archaeological Survey (Final Report). Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 532.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2001. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2000. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt IV pp 707-728. p 713.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 22 2015 10:06AM

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