Record Details
| NHER Number: | 30568 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Iron Age pits and pottery sherds |
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Summary
Archaeological fieldwork conducted in advance of the digging of a borrow pit recovered a Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flint and a sherd of post medieval pottery. A subsequent excavation in 1994 recorded eleven archaeological features and sherds of Iron Age pottery. Some of these features were identified as Iron Age pits.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6712 0097 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60SE |
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| Parish: | WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1994. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Fieldwork in advance of borrow pit. Site on slight sand hill about 1m high, 40cm of soil over sand.
Metal detecting produced no finds.
Worked flint Neolithic/Bronze Age.
One post medieval sherd, one unidentified sherd.
See report (S1) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA) 21 April 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015.
28 April 1994. NLA aerial photography.
Photographs showing site of NAU excavation of Iron Age features encountered during re-alignment of B1160 (NHER 30442).
S. Massey (NLA) 6 February 2001.
July 1994. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of topsoil stripping on site of borrow pit.
Eleven features possibly archaeological, Iron Age sherds found.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
A. Shelley (NAU) 22 July 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015.
Monument Types
- FEATURE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF 67 00 D-U. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1994. Proposed Borrow Pit, Wereham. Field Survey. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 91. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Shelley, A. 1994. Proposed Borrow Pit, Wereham, Norfolk. Watching Brief Report. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 99. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1995. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1994. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt II pp 230-239. p 238. |
Related records
| 30442 | Related to: Undated features and multi-period finds, B1160 Re-alignment (Monument) |
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