Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41016 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Multi-period features and finds |
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Summary
In 2004 several fields, caravan parks and open areas on the cliff top between Sheringham and Cromer were rapidly fieldwalked. Prehistoric flint flakes, a possible windmill mound, World War Two features and undated earthwork banks, ditches, cropmarks were recorded.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 19057 42795 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SE |
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| Parish: | BEESTON REGIS, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| CROMER, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| RUNTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| SHERINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Land based fieldwork phase of the Norfolk Rapid Coastal Survey. See also NHER 41012 to 41015 and 41017 to 41020.
For intertidal phase of survey, see NHER 40310.
J. Allen (NLA) 3 December 2004.
Contexts 1 to 31 used.
Fields, caravans parks and open areas on the cliff top between Sheringham and Cromer were rapidly fieldwalked. Prehistoric flint flakes, a possible windmill mound (NHER 6394), World War Two features and undated banks, ditches, cropmarks and concrete were recorded.
See assessment report (S1) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.16 and NWHCM : 2017.421).
D. Robertson (NLA) 28 September 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- WINDMILL (Unknown date)
- STRUCTURE (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds
- BUILDING MATERIAL (Unknown date)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Robertson, D., Crawley, P., Barker, A., and Whitmore, S. 2005. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1045. pp 126-129. |
Related records
| 6394 | Parent of: Moated site, possibly a medieval windmill mound (Monument) |
| 51047 | Parent of: Undated earthwork bank (Monument) |
| 51046 | Parent of: Undated earthwork banks (Monument) |
| 38315 | Parent of: World War One to Two firing ranges (Monument) |
| 38279 | Parent of: World War Two military site (Monument) |
| 21298 | Parent of: World War Two observation post (Monument) |
| 38336 | Parent of: World War Two pillbox (Monument) |
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