Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24565 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Wall of unknown date and multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking between 1986 and 2002 recovered ?Upper Palaeolithic, Neolithic/Bronze Age and undatable prehistoric worked flints and Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds. No objects of note were found on the one occasion that this field was subject to metal-detecting.
A flint wall of unknown date was revealed on the edge of Clipstreet Road in 1995.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 01 37 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NW |
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| Parish: | GUNTHORPE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1986 to 1987. Surface finds.
Two Roman greyware.
Five Thetford type including Grimston Thetford.
23 medieval unglazed.
7 glazed Grimston.
2 post medieval.
A. Rogerson (NAU) January 1988.
June 1990. Further fieldwork by [1].
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval sherds.
See plan and list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 22 August 1990.
September/October 1996. Found while metal detecting.
2 small blade like flint flakes.
One has a naturally pointed end which has minor retouch and wear; probably used as a piercer. The other is unmodified.
Undatable prehistoric.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 December 1996.
1995.
Flint wall, base of, in bank and in edge of field. Exposed by cultivation.
See (S1) and (S2) in file.
?Date of wall, all flint and mortar, no brick/tile visible.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 April 1997.
30 March 1998 to 25 May 1998.
1 ?Upper Palaeolithic retouched flint flake. See finder's sketch in file.
2 undatable prehistoric flint flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 10 February 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.
First half 1999. Metal detecting.
Nothing of archaeological interest found.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 27 December 1999.
29 March 1999. Field observation.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NCM)
To east of pit: Secondary flint flake, patinated blue grey. Unmodified.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 13 July 2000.
April 17th 2000. Fieldwalking.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NCM).
Undatable prehistoric flint.
See (S3) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 February 2001.
March 2002. Surface find. Strip between pit and Clipstreet Road.
Scraper/knife combination tool:
Secondary flake with steep retouch on rounded left side and fine shallow retouch on thin right edge.
Neolithic or Bronze Age.
Identified by P. A. Robins (NCM)
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 December 2002.
Monument Types
- WALL (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- 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 - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: Hotblack. T. E.. 1995. Flint wall, Clipstreet Road, Bale. 20 May. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Hotblack, T. E.. 1996. Plan of flint walls in Clipstreet Road, Bale. 10 November. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Document: Robins, P. A.. 2001. Lithic Report. |
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