Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23213 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric occupation site in field south of Thornham Road north of wood |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked flint and a concentration of prehistoric burnt flints that may be indicative of occupation. Later fieldwalking before the laying of a pipeline recovered pieces of Middle Saxon pottery that are an outlying part of the concentration recorded as NHER 23120.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7216 9590 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
23 December 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Ploughed and partly weathered.
Context 1 general scatter. MTW CQ.
Flints.
Context 2 at 7220 9584. MTW 88.
Small concentration of pot boilers, sparse. No flints on gravelly loam slope. 13m east to west x 14m north to south.
R. Silvester (NAU), 23 December 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Context 3 at [1].
Part of Middle Saxon concentration of which main area is NHER 23120 Context 2. See that site for details.
See also report (S3) and (S4).
E. Rose (NLA), 13 May 1992.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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 (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 88. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CQ. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. The Wellington Plantation - Stoke Ferry Pipeline. A Summary of Archaeological Work undertaken on the route of the Pipeline. February-August 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 29. |
Related records
| 23120 | Related to: Middle Saxon ditches and burials plus multi-period finds (Monument) |
| 23670 | Related to: Multi-period finds from field between Thornham Road and String Drain, Fenland Survey and Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Find Spot) |