NHER 7025 (Monument record) - Prehistoric ditch, possible Bronze Age cremation
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG33SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WITTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
OS field 130.
1962 excavation of ring ditch cropmark. Other cropmarks, and surface scatter.
See list in file, and (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 19 April 1982.
December 1984.
Exavation of three dark patches of soil recovered prehistoric pottery sherds, potboilers, flint flakes and evidence of burning. Fragments of cremated human bone were also noted. One or more ditches were also excavated and revealed pot boilers, daub, slag, post medieval pottery sherds and Bronze Age pottery sherds.
E. Rose (NAU), 21 February 1985.
March 2005. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks and excavation of the post medieval post mill and pit (previously NHER 7025 contexts 1, 2 and 3) have been reinstated to their original number (NHER 7071). Cropmarks of a double ditched enclosure (previously partly included in NHER 7025 context 1) are now recorded as NHER 38872. Other cropmarks in this field that were not specifically referred to in the NHER 7025 record are now recorded as NHER 27240, 27241, 27243 and 38864.
J. Albone (NMP), 10 March 2005
The Roman objects recovered by metal-detecting in 2009 previously recorded under this number are now recorded as NHER 59974.
H. Hamilton (HES), 22 January 2014.
Associated Sources (10)
- --- SNF12969 Aerial Photograph: TG3330A-U, TG3230E, F, RAF 106G/UK/1634/1106-7.
- --- SNF97838 Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Witton.
- --- SNF87263 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Witton; Witton - NHER 7072.
- --- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Witton.
- --- 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. TG 33 SW 35.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF87127 Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 6.
- <S1> SNF2791 Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. 1983. The Archaeology of Witton, near North Walsham. East Anglian Archaeology. No 18.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (12)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
- POT (Undated)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Jun 21 2016 9:31AM