Record Details

NHER Number:39449
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in 2003 recovered prehistoric worked flints, a Neolithic flint scraper, a Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead and Roman coins. Also found were fragments of Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery and a piece of medieval floor tile.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2772 2389
Map Sheet:TG22SE
Parish:SCOTTOW, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

19 and 20 July 2003. Fieldwalking. Contexts 401-468.
Fieldwalking in the southern half of the field recorded 35 burnt flint fragments and 149 prehistoric worked flints including a Late(?) Neolithic scraper, a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead (context 401, see sketch in file), one core, 6 undated scrapers, 7 knives, and 5 borers. One possible beaker sherd was recorded, one Iron Age and one Roman sherd, Late Saxon (Thetford ware), medieval and post medieval pottery, one medieval floor tile fragment, and one piece of iron slag.
See lists in file.
The finds were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2004.804)
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 September 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2019.

The above fieldwalking also yielded one Roman coin each from contexts 410, 423 and 442.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 August 2003.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to 19th Century - 851 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
  • BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • KNIFE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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