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Record Details

NHER Number:	34702
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Iron Age settlement, medieval corn-drying oven and field boundaries

Summary

Archaeological work during pipe-laying works in 1999 recorded a number of Iron Age features that may represent the edge of a much larger settlement. The truncated remains of a medieval corn-drying oven and field boundaries were also identified.

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Location

Grid Reference:	TG 11647 43122
Map Sheet:	TG14SW
Parish:	WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1999. Fieldwalking Survey, Excavation and Watching Brief.
Archaeological work undertaken during groundworks associated with the construction of a replacement pipeline between Kelling and Sheringham. Contexts 100 to 310.
Particularly intensive work was undertaken at [1], close to where a possible Bronze Age cremation had been discovered in 1963 (NHER 6263). The limits of this site were refined by an initial fieldwalking survey, which recovered prehistoric worked flints, burnt flints and Iron Age and medieval pottery. Two adjacent areas were subsequently excavated, revealing a range of features. The earliest remains appeared to be two pits of possible Bronze Age date. A number of Iron Age ditches, post-holes and pits were also present, these thought to represent the edge of a larger settlement that may extend further northwards. A medieval corn drying oven and several field boundaries were also identified.
Monitoring of topsoil stripping between the Kelling and Muckleburgh Hill failed to identify an archaeologically significant features, with natural deposits not exposed along much of this section of the easement.
Monitoring of topsoil stripping between Muckleburgh Hill and Sheringham had similarly negative results. The NAU was however subsequently contacted by site contractors during February 2000 when archaeological remains were identified during pipelaying at [2]. Several features were subsequently recorded, including a pit and a ?ditch that both produced Iron Age pottery sherds.
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 : 2018.177).
See NHER 34702 for details of work undertaken at the new Beach Lane Pumping Station.
D. Gurney (NLA), 3 January 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 April 2015 and 26 April 2019.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
GULLY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
PIT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
PIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POST HOLE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
CORN DRYING OVEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BOUNDARY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
DITCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
PIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

OYSTER SHELL (Undated)
POLISHER (Undated)
QUERN (Undated)
POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BLADE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
BORER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
CORE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

SHINE

Sources and further reading

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<S1>	Unpublished Contractor Report: Timms, S. 2000. Report on Archaeological Works at Weybourne, Kelling and Sheringham for Anglian Water, 1999. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 466.
<S2>	Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2000. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1999. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt III pp 521-543. p 541.