Record Details

NHER Number:41362
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Iron Age settlement and multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking has recovered a concentration of Iron Age pottery suggesting that it was the site of a settlement. Prehistoric flints and fragments of medieval to post medieval pottery have also been found.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 87 05
Map Sheet:TF80NE
Parish:NORTH PICKENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 23 December 2004. Fieldwalking. Finders' site 3.
Prehistoric worked flints.
Concentration of Iron Age sherds.
Some medieval sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 March 2005.

Before 3 October 2006. Metal detecting, site extended to whole field.
Prehistoric, probably Bronze Age or Iron Age worked flints.
Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and medieval/post medieval sherds.
Undatable lava quern and fired clay.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 February 2007.

March - April 2007. Metal detecting.
1 medieval coin.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 21 May 2007.

Fieldwalking before 8 February 2007.
More Iron Age sherds from field East of churchyard.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 August 2007.

Fieldwalking before 31 August 2007.
Prehistoric worked flints, Iron Age, ?Late Saxon and medieval sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 December 2007.

Fieldwalking late 2007/early 2008.
Early Neolithic worked flints; Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano British; Early/Middle Saxon, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and Medieval sherds; Romano British brooch; Medieval spindle whorls.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 22 October 2008.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • QUERN (Unknown date)
  • DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • COMBINATION TOOL (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • ROD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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