Record Details

NHER Number:16758
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint and Iron Age to post medieval pottery finds.

Summary

Fieldwalking at this site has recovered prehistoric worked flint including flakes and scrapers, and pottery from the Iron Age, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval periods including a piece of post medieval candlestick.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2332 1203
Map Sheet:TG21SW
Parish:OLD CATTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1980. East side of former Catton Hall park. Found while fieldwalking.
Flint flake.
Thetford Ware rim.
Medieval cooking pot rim and bowls sherds and rim, including green glazed Grimston ware and red sherd with white inclusions.
Similar finds have been made at Castle Acre Castle.
W. Milligan (NCM), 22 October 1980.

January 1981.
At TG 2330 1201.
Prehistoric flint flakes and scraper.
I.D. A. Lawson (NAU), 30 January 1981.
Details as above - formerly number NHER 17040.

June 1982.
Over both above sites, scatter of many worked flints, Neolithic/Bronze Age.
I.D. A. Lawson (NAU), 16 June 1982.
Details as above.
Also green glazed Grimston sherds.
Late medieval or early post medieval sherds.
Lead glazed earthenware.
Staffordshire combed slipware.
Surrey whiteware candlestick fragment.
Thetford type rim.
W. Milligan (NCM), 16 June 1982.

Also probable Iron Age sherd. Identified by T. Gregory (NAU).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • CANDLE HOLDER (Undated)
  • 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)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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