Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23670 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds from field between Thornham Road and String Drain, Fenland Survey and Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked and burnt flints. Some of these were dated to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Pieces of medieval and prehistoric pot were also found. 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. Metal-detecting in 2012 and 2016 recovered a Middle Saxon coin; Early to Late Saxon tweezers, and a post-medieval copper alloy 1 ounce weight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 72 96 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
23 April 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Context 2 at 7223 9621.
Small group of flint northwest corner of field.
Remainder of field not walked as recently rolled.
R. Silvester (NAU), 30 April 1987.
6 November 1987. Further fieldwalking in weathered ploughsoil, young winter cereal. MTW FA.
Context 1 over whole field.
Scatter of fairly prolific Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints, few medieval sherds and one prehistoric flint gritted sherd. No concentrations.
23 April 1987.
Also pot boilers found in southeast corner.
F. Healy (NAU).
Context 3 at 7244 9617. Fieldwalking a t 3.4m OD on edge of drop to old stream course, sandy soil.MTW FC.
Small scatter of flints over an area 16m east to west x 15m north to south.
R. Silvester (NAU), 6 November 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types, etc. see (S3).
February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Southwest corner of site = Context 4, edge of Middle Saxon concentration (NHER 23120 Context 2).
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details
E. Rose (NAU).
Before 6 June 2012. Metal-detecting. [1].
Post-medieval copper alloy 1 ounce weight.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 12 March 2013.
November 2016. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 Middle Saxon coin.
Early to Late Saxon tweezers.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 6 June 2016. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017.
Description from record MNF71871:
Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 700 AD to 750 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 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)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- TWEEZERS (Roman to Late Saxon - 400 AD to 900 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- COIN (Middle Saxon - 700 AD to 750 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WEIGHT (17th Century to 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1800 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW ES. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FA. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FC. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34. |
| <S2> | 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. |
| <S3> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
Related records
| 23120 | Related to: Middle Saxon ditches and burials plus multi-period finds (Monument) |
| 23213 | Related to: Prehistoric occupation site in field south of Thornham Road north of wood (Monument) |