Record Details

NHER Number:33585
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period pottery sherds and metal objects

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting here during 1998-99 and 2004 recovered sherds of Iron Age, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery along with medieval bricks, a medieval coin and Late Saxon buckle.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 68 00
Map Sheet:TF60SE
Parish:WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

March/April 1998. Fieldwalking on ploughed surface.
Medieval pottery concentration; areas of dark soil, much medieval brick divided into three areas.
See map and lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 15 May 1998.

December 1999. Surface finds.
One undatable prehistoric or Iron Age bs grey core, pinkish surfaces, sparse large hard white (?limestone) inclusions.
One medieval jar rim and twenty-eight body sherds of medieval unglazed.
One base and seven body sherds glazed grimston (including slip decorated).
One body sherds Cambridgeshire glazed (white inclusions).
One body sherd of late medieval/transitional.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 July 2000.

August/September 2004. Metal detecting.
One medieval coin.
Late Saxon buckle.
Medieval, post medieval and undatable metal objects.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 6 October 2004.

Monument Types

  • SITE (Undated)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 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

  • QUERN (Undated)
  • RING (Unknown date)
  • WEIGHT (Unknown date)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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