Record Details

NHER Number:7057
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric pot boiler concentration

Summary

In 1972 a pot boiler concentration was noted here, along with animal bones, charcoal and a sherd of Neolithic pottery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3391 3114
Map Sheet:TG33SW
Parish:WITTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1972.
Pot boiler site seen with animal bones and charcoal.
Information from NCM card (S1).
A. J. Lawson (NAU) notes as 'sherds, pot boilers etc beneath peat'.
E. Rose (NAU), 5 May 1982.

A. J. Lawson (NAU) adds - in drain between two fields.
Finds in detail - two fragments bone (sample only); three fragments burnt clay (sample), one pot boiler (sample); charcoal, one prehistoric sherd (?Neolithic).
E. Rose (NAU).

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Witton.
<S1>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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