Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30297 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in this area during 1993, in advance of the development of a golf course, recovered a wide range of artefacts. Finds of note included prehistoric worked and burnt flints, post medieval glass and tobacco pipes and sherds of Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6603 1909 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61NE |
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| Parish: | BAWSEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1992. Metal-detecting.
Mintlyn Farm Field Survey (Lucerne/Area D):
Four hours in total spent examining area of 'set-aside' at western end of field. Small number of objects found (all previously recorded under NHER 28924):
1 undatable lead objects, including 1 disc and 1 sheet fragment.
1 undatable unidentified copper alloy object.
See (S1) and notes and plans in file for NHERs 28921-28924.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 December 2013.
Spring 1993. Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Mintlyn Farm Field Survey (Lucerne):
NAU fieldwalking in advance of proposed golf course. Large proportion of field walked in 25m grid squares at 4 to 5m intervals.
Iron slag.
Flints and pot boilers.
Medieval bronze buckle, undated bronze ferrule.
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval sherds.
Medieval tiles and brick.
Post medieval sherds and 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 : 2017.463).
E. Rose (NAU), 2 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2015 and 27 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- 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
- DISC (Unknown date)
- FERRULE (Unknown date)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
- SHEET (Unknown date)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (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 (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1994. An Archaeological Field Survey. Mintlyn Farm, Bawsey. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 90. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 115-123. p 115. |
Related records
| 3403 | Parent of: Medieval pottery (Find Spot) |
| 20577 | Parent of: Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints (Find Spot) |
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