NHER 8387 (Monument record) - Hickling Broad

Hickling, Blackfleet and Chapman's broads, Catfield Common, White Slea, Heigham Sound.
Medieval peat workings (note straight parish boundaries crossing them). See (S1).

1972. Context 1. [1]
In 1972 a copper alloy looped palstave with shield pattern and central rib (trident), flanges very thin, very corroded, 'transitional' type, found in a barge after being dredged from the river about here.
See (S2) by T. H. Mck Clough (NCM) 1973.
See (S3).

1914 to 1920.
Hickling Broad was used as a seaplane base when Yarmouth Roads affected by storms.
E. Rose (NLA).

August 1993. Fieldwalking finds. Context 2 in Mrs. Myhill's Marsh.[2]
Scatter across field of medieval and post medieval sherds.
Eight sherds of 12th to 15th century pottery.
One sherd of Raeren stoneware, 15th or 16th century.
Identified by W. F. Milligan (NCM).
J. Davies (NCM), 30 September 1993.

September 2008-September 2011. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 6).
These works include the excavation of a new soke dyke along the southern side of Hickling Broad and the west bank of Candle Dyke. No archaeologically significant features or deposits were exposed. In the vicinity of Hickling Broad peat was present beneath the topsoil. Elsewhere a sequence of dark grey and brownish orange clayey silts was sealed by a thin topsoil.
See report (S?) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 02 June 2017.


September 1993. Fieldwalking finds. [3]
Scatter across field of late medieval or early post medieval and late medieval sherds, six rims, two handles, forty-one body sherds. One sherd of stoneware (Raeren?).
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM).
J. Davies (NCM), 1 November 1993.

Is this location accurate? Has the marsh been reclaimed?
E. Rose (NLA), 9 November 1993.

In 1994 finder states that he in fact found this pottery on site NHER 30324.
Information from J. Davies (NCM).
E. Rose (NLA), 8 February 1994.

Note island now called Pleasure Island, formerly Pleasure Hill and on (S4) as Coolharbour isle - an artificial island like Pleasure Hill in Barton Broad?
E. Rose (NLA), 17 February 1998.

See (S5) in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 27 May 2003.

March 2005. Norfolk NMP.
The NMP mapping within the wider area of Hickling Broad has been recorded as separate sites, NHER 43721-5. These include discrete areas of peat extraction and associated earthworks that are now located within drained or vegetation encroached areas of the former broad.
S. Massey (NMP), 29 March 2005.

September 2008-September 2011. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks undertaken as part of Broadland Flood Alleviation Project (Compartment 6).
These works include the excavation of a new soke dyke along the southern side of Hickling Broad and the west bank of Candle Dyke. No archaeologically significant features or deposits were exposed. In the vicinity of Hickling Broad peat was present beneath the topsoil. Elsewhere a sequence of dark grey and brownish orange clayey silts was sealed by a thin topsoil.
See report (S6) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 February 2018.