Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7637 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flint implements and multi-period pottery sherds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in this area during 1961 and 1988-89 recovered a Mesolithic flint axehead; a Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead; several undatable prehistoric flint flakes; Roman, Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds and undatable iron slag fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2202 2099 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG22SW |
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| Parish: | STRATTON STRAWLESS, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1961. Stray Find.
Found in field:
1 Mesolithic-type flint axehead. See drawing (S1).
1 Early Neolithic damaged leaf-shaped flint arrowhead. See drawing (S2).
Information from (S3). These discoveries were reported in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
May 1987. Fieldwalking.
7 Roman pottery sherds (greyware).
2 ?Roman pottery sherds.
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford ware).
1 medieval pottery sherd (green-glazed Grimston).
2 undatable iron slag lumps.
Identified by T. Gregory (NAU) and W. Milligan (NCM). Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 26 August 1987.
Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014 (this entry previously missing from the record).
November 1987. Fieldwalking.
Found by [2]:
Roman pottery sherds.
Medieval pottery sherds.
Post-medieval pottery sherds.
1 undatable copper alloy sheet.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM), see notes [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 11 August 2016.
October 1988 and early 1989. Fieldwalking.
1 undatable prehistoric retouched flint flake (worked bifacially) and 1 flint flake.
Roman pottery sherds (greyware, including 1 rim).
2 medieval sherds (medieval unglazed).
1 Late Saxon pottery sherd (Thetford ware rim).
W. Milligan (NCM), 2 November 1988 and W. Milligan (NCM), 9 March 1989.
The Norwich Castle Museum hold a Neolithic worked flint and a number of Roman pottery sherds that are recorded as having been found at this site by [1] in the late 1980s (NWHCM : 1998.388.11). It is possible these are some of the finds described above.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 May 2014.
Pre 1 June 1989. Fieldwalking.
Found by [2] at 'Home field (top of hill'):
6 undatable prehistoric flint flakes (some with retouch).
3 Roman pottery sherds (greyware).
Medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds (LMT).
Post-medieval pottery sherds (Lead-Glazed Earthenware, stoneware).
Undatable lead waste and slag.
Probably identified by W. Milligan (NCM), see notes [3].
P. Watkins (HES), 11 August 2016.
Part of large site NHER 31783.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- SLAG (Unknown date)
- WASTE (Unknown date)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SHEET (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1961. Drawing of a Mesolithic flint axehead from Stratton Strawless. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1961. Drawing of a damaged Early Neolithic leaf-shaped flint arrowhead from Stratton Strawless. Card. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
| <S4> | Serial: 1961. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1961. No 8. p 4. |
| <S5> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records
| 31783 | Related to: Probable Roman pottery kiln and multi-period metal objects and pottery sherds (Monument) |
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