Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33670 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Ridge and furrow and multi-period findspot |
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Summary
Fieldwalking here in 1998 recovered a single prehistoric flint flake. Geophysical survey in 2003 detected multiple parallel anomalies, possibly the remains of ridge and furrow ploughing. Fieldwalking recovered a number of finds including two flint scrapers, a flint blade, three flint flakes, three fragments of ceramic building material and a fragment of post-medieval bottle glass.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 77 17 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF71NE |
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| Parish: | WESTACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
7 January 1998. Fieldwalking finds. Finders field 69.
One flint flake.
See full details in file.
E. Rose (NLA) July 1998.
November 2002 - January 2003. Geophysical, metal detecting and fieldwalking survey. Bacton to King's Lynn Pipeline plot 244.
Multiple parallel linear anomalies were recorded by the geophysical survey and were possibly the remains of ridge and furrow ploughing. A scatter of artefacts erre recovere during fieldwalking including flint scrapers, blade, flakes; three fragments of ceramic building material; and a fragment of post-medieval bottle glass.
See (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 8 February 2010.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- RIDGE AND FURROW (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- BUILDING MATERIAL (Unknown date)
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BOTTLE (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| --- | Unpublished Contractor Report: Network Archaeology. 2002.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. |
| --- | 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 | Unpublished Contractor Report: [Unknown]. 2003.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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