Record Details
| NHER Number: | 16144 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Between 1980 and 1982 a number of finds were recovered from this section of the river bank, including a Palaeolithic retouched flint flake, an undatable prehistoric retouched flint flake, a ?prehistoric burnt flint and a Bronze Age/Iron Age pottery sherd. A layer of burnt material (potentially waste from nearby lime kilns) was also observed.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2707 0790 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NE |
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| Parish: | KIRBY BEDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
24 May 1980. Field Observation and Stray Find.
Found by E. Rose (NAU) on sandy beach exposed by collapse of river bank:
1 ?prehistoric burnt flint 'pot boiler'.
NB. There is a layer of burnt material immediately above natural in the bank, but this appears to be of recent date composed of clinker from the lime kilns (see the large blocks of slag in river nearby).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 28 May 1980.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2014.
May 1980. Stray Find.
Finds recovered by [1] on bank of River Yare, just east of Whitlingham Lane picnic area. These found 8" [20cm] down in river bank, above a thin band of cindery material (bank badly disturbed):
1 prehistoric retouched flint flake.
1 Bronze Age/Iron Age pottery sherd. Base of jar in heavily flint-gritted fabric of generalised BA/IA type.
These finds were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1981.424).
Identified and compiled by A. Gregory (NAU), 4 June 1980.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2014.
February 1982. Stray Find.
Found by [1] at same site:
1 Lower Palaeolithic retouched pointed flake.
Also donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1981.424).
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU), 26 February 1982. Compiled by W. Milligan (NAU), 26 February 1982.
Information from (S1). Also noted on (S2)
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2014.
1989. Stray Find.
Found by [2] on river beach at [3]:
2 ?Palaeolithic stained flint flakes.
Identified by J. J. Wymer and noted on (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 12 February 2016.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- POT (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Kirby Bedon (Whitlingham). |
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