Record Details

NHER Number:12808
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint flake

Summary

A prehistoric flint flake was found during fieldwalking carried out ahead of the construction of the Norwich Southern bypass.The ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 53679.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1212 1094
Map Sheet:TG11SW
Parish:HONINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

THE RING DITCH PREVIOUSLY RECORDED UNDER THIS NUMBER IS NOW UNDER NHER 53679.

Very faint cropmark of ring ditch.
Located by E. Rose (NAU), 13 September 1977.

NAU air photographs.
Cropmark of one ring ditch in cereal crop. Site previously located as above, but now located accurately as TG 1235 1090 by D. Edwards (NAU). See overlays for NHER record map TG 11 SW (S1) compiled by D. Edwards (NAU).
D. Edwards (NAU), 21 January 1980.

Context 1. 1980s fieldwalking in advance of Norwich Southern Bypass. NHER number now covers whole field, 'field 1' of survey.
One flint flake found, otherwise only recent finds.
See Norwich Southern Bypass fieldwork file (S2).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 March 1990.

See also NHER 12809 for further ring ditches to the south-west. Together these may form part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 17 February 2009.

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 53679.
S. Horlock (NMP), 16 June 2010

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG1210 A-F.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>*Overlay: NAU. Aerial photograph overlays.
<S2>Archive: NAU. 1985 to 1989. Norwich Southern Bypass Fieldwork Folder..

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