Record Details

NHER Number:28897
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking here during 1992 recovered ?prehistoric burnt flint along with medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds. A fieldwalking survey between 2002 and 2003 recovered finds dating from the ?prehistoric to post-medieval period. Metal detecting in 2005 retrieved one post-medieval coin, medieval and post-medieval belt mounts and medieval belt plates.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 17 30
Map Sheet:TG13SE
Parish:ERPINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1992. Fieldwalking find; finder's no. W27.
Medieval and post medieval sherds.
Flints. Potboiler site.
See lists and details in file.
E. Rose (NLA) April 1992.

November 2002 - January 2003. Fieldwalking survey. Bacton to King's Lynn pipeline plot 78.
Fieldwalking recovered 21 burnt flints, two sherds of post-mdieval pottery, one piece of post-medieval bottle glass and two pieces of slag.
See (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 11 February 2010.

See NHER 37953 for fieldwalking survey on the Bacton to King's Lynn Transco pipeline which located a burnt flint mound which was represented by a scatter of 131 burnt flints, which may be associated with this site.
J. Allen (NLA), 6 August 2007.

Summer 2005. Metal detecting rally. Field 76
1 post-medieval coin, medieval and post-medieval metal objects.
See list and CD in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 September 2006.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SLAG (Unknown date)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BOTTLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Unpublished Contractor Report: Network Archaeology. 2002. Bacton to Kings Lynn Proposed Gas Pipeline. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment. Network Archaeology. 179.
---Photograph: Riddler, I.. 2005. Digital photographs of Discovery Tours finds, Summer 2005. CD.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: [Unknown]. 2003. Bacton to Kings Lynn Proposed Gas Pipeline. Archaeological Field Reconnaissance, Fieldwalking, Metal Detecting and Geophysical Survey. Network Archaeology. 184.

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37953Part of: Prehistoric burnt mound, Bacton to King's Lynn Transco Pipeline (Find Spot)

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