NHER 61634 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking at this site in 2003 and 2004 identified two concentrations of probable Iron Age pottery. A range of other material was also recovered, including Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints, lava quern fragments and what were identified by the finder as Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL99NE
Civil Parish ROCKLANDS, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

2003. Fieldwalking.
Found at Context 1 (finder's Site 3):
?Prehistoric burnt flints.
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scraper.
31 Iron Age pottery sherds (flint gritted).
13 ?medieval pottery sherds.
1 undated lava ?quern fragment.
Objects identified by finder, see notes and sketch maps in file [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 5 October 2016.

April 2004. Fieldwalking.
Found at Context 2 (finder's Site 2):
10 Iron Age pottery sherds (flint gritted) - a sample of those present.
2 ?Late Saxon pottery sherds.
42 medieval pottery sherds.
1 undated lava quern fragment.
The Iron Age sherds at this location are probably a continuation of a scatter observed at the northern end of the field to the south (NHER 33169 Context 5)

Scatter finds from the area examined included:
?Prehistoric burnt flints.
11 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint tools (including scrapers, borers and blades).

Objects identified by finder, see notes and sketch maps in file [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 5 October 2016.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • QUERN (Unknown date)
  • QUERN (Unknown date)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD? to 1065 AD?)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

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Record last edited

Oct 5 2016 11:52AM

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