Record Details

NHER Number:22184
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric or Iron Age pottery sherds and a Roman coin

Summary

Fieldwalking before 1985 recovered prehistoric or Iron Age pottery sherds. Metal-detecting in 2017 recovered a Roman coin.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 23 97
Map Sheet:TM29NW
Parish:SAXLINGHAM NETHERGATE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Pre 1985. 'In rough east-west line across two fields' between sites NHER 13174 and NHER 17697. [1].
Three Iron Age sherds.
In letter from source states that sherds were identified by A.Gregory (NAU) or A. Rogerson (NAU), though no NAU record of this. However, note that Iron Age sherd mentioned from site NHER 17697 in same sentence was in fact identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) only as a prehistoric flint gritted.
E. Rose (NAU) 10 February 1986.

September 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 27 February 2019. Amended by E. McDonald (HES), 1 March 2019.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1995. TM 2397X - AA, AC - AN.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records - none

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