Record Details

NHER Number:34820
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age terret

Summary

A watching brief carried out in 1998 on the site of a electricity pylon recorded no archaeological finds or features. Metal detecting in 2001 recovered an Iron Age terret.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 42 98
Map Sheet:TM49NW
Parish:THURLTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

April-July 1998. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks for replacement of electricity pylon towers (PPA 82).
No features or finds (except in some cases post medieval ditches - report does not specify at which sites).
See report (S1) for further information (including details of stratigraphy).
E. Rose (NLA) 5 January 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 April 2015

October 2001. Metal detecting.
Found near previously mapped location of NHER 34820 ([1]):
1 Iron Age terret.
See drawing (S2) and description in file.
S. Ashley (NLA), 6 December 2001.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • HARNESS FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Hobbs, B. 1999. Report on a Watching Brief on the Trowse to Thurlton Pylon Replacement Scheme. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 469.
<S2>Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

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