Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23011 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boiler sites |
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Summary
Two prehistoric pot boiler sites were identified during fieldwalking in 1986. An evaluation carried out by the NAU in 1991 revealed that any burnt mounds associated with the pot boilers sites had been destroyed by ploughing. Prehistoric flints and pot boilers, pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval period, medieval roof tile and post medieval brick has been found on the site.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6451 1476 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SW |
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| Parish: | MIDDLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
24 October 1986, North of track, south of parish boundary. Fenland fieldwalking MDT AF well weathered soil, young cereal.
Context 1 from general fieldwalking only one medieval sherd.
Context 2 at 6460 1477 and Context 3 at 6440 1480; two patches of sand with potboilers apparent on slopes above fen where soil varies between gravelly soil and loam. Not many, but sufficient to suggest not accidental.
R. Silvester (NAU) 27 October 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
September 1991. Systematic Fieldwalking and Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of two previously identified potboiler sites revealed that they had mostly been destroyed by ploughing.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
E. Rose (NLA), 27 November 1991. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2014.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: FXA. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MDT AF. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 1991. Middleton clay site gets go-ahead with conditions. 17 July. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. and Crowson, A. 1991. Report of Archaeological Evaluation at Setch Road, Middleton, September 1991. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 5. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1992. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 1991. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt III pp 371-379. p 374. |
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