Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2188 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Medieval and post medieval pottery fragments, together with a large number of cockle shells were found in 1933.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 5998 2315 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF52SE |
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| Parish: | CLENCHWARTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1933. North Farm Lands, west bank of Great Ouse. About 3m to 4.5m (10-15ft) OD.
Small mound on NCC smallholdings being reduced.
Several sherds found.
Some 17th century and 'a number of pieces as much like Roman as anything else' (R. E. M. Wheeler) (Possibly Late Saxon or medieval. R. R. Clarke NCM.)
Possibly a cockle boiling site; many shells.
Information from P. L. K. Schwabe, December 1935.
Where are sherds? (Copy NCM card by R. R. Clarke; material not checked.).
KLM 6 inch map version of this is:- 'Low mound levelled 1936. Pot glazed and unglazed medieval, 16th century, cockle shells, ?boiling site, fragment Bellarmine, P. L. K. Schwabe'.
E. Rose (NAU), 26 November 1980.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- SHELL MIDDEN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SHELL MIDDEN (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- SHELL MIDDEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 52 SE 1. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Clenchwarton. |
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