Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11446 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric finds |
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Summary
Pieces of Beaker period, Iron Age, Roman pot were found when the field was ploughed. Fieldwalking recovered more pieces of Iron Age pot, prehistoric flints and worked bones. Other finds include a complete Middle Bronze Age ribbed bracelet, a Bronze Age awl and a post medieval finger ring. There has been some confusion between this site and NHER 5235.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 68 93 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69SE |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
This site is also considered as part of site NHER 5235. See explanation on file sheet for NHER 5235, 1996 entry.
1975. On ploughed surface near edge of black peat.
Sherds: base and wall of coarse Iron Age jar.
Rims of two others (compare Thetford castle).
Small Roman greyware sherd - from face urn?
Small incised Beaker sherd.
E. Rose (NLA).
7/9 February 1996. Fieldwalking finds on ridge.
Linear decorated Iron Age pot.
Flint hammerstone.
10 April 1996.
More burnished pot and ?worked bone and another bone.
Flint flake.
See (S1).
18 April 1996 and 26 April 1996. Location [1].
Middle Bronze Age complete ribbed bracelet and bones.
See (S2).
W. Milligan (NCM), 15 February 1996.
1 April 1996. Metal detecting finds.
Bronze Age bronze awl found on west edge of chalky ridge. See (S2).
Bird bone `awl'? Bronze Age or Iron Age.
May 1996.
Grooved prehistoric sherd.
W. Milligan (NCM), 9 May 1996.
22 May 1996. Metal detecting find.
Bronze finger ring, ?Post medieval.
W. Milligan (NCM) 6 August 1997.
February/April 1997. DIG 1. In and around.
Prehistoric sherds, bone and stone.
W. Milligan (NCM), 6 August 1997.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- WORKED OBJECT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- WORKED OBJECT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- AWL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BRACELET (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- AWL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Robins, P.A.. Lithic Report. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
Related records
| 5235 | Related to: Multi-period finds including redeposited Middle Bronze Age objects (Find Spot) |