Record Details

NHER Number:29993
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric pot boiler concentration, medieval to post medieval objects

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting in 1992 and 1994 recovered prehistoric worked flint and a pot boiler concentration, as well as metal objects from the medieval and post medieval periods, and an Edward the I or II penny.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 12 01
Map Sheet:TG10SW
Parish:WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1992. Metal detector find. Context 1.
Edward I/II penny London mint.
See list in file.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM), 3 November 1992.
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 30 October 1992.

September-October 1994. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey of extensive proposed development area surrounding Harts Farm (Field 7).
Pot boiler site, flints.
Medieval sherds.
Post-medieval finds.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.574).
E. Rose (NLA), 29 March 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015 and 17 May 2019.

Monument Types

  • 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

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • 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)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MUSKET BALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Percival, S. 1994. Proposed Development at Harts Farm, Wymondham. An Archaeological Assessment (Field Walking and Metal Detector Survey). Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 111.
<S2>Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1995. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1994. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt II pp 230-239. pp 238-239.

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