Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17163 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds, undated mounds and suggested World War Two firing range |
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Summary
Two undated mounds are recorded and objects of prehistoric to World War Two date have been collected. The artefacts include prehistoric and Neolithic worked flints, prehistoric, Early Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery and World War Two ammunition fragments. The ammunition suggests that the site was used as a firing range during World War Two, although no evidence of this was visible on wartime aerial photography. Assessment of the aerial photographs also revealed no traces of the previously recorded mounds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1211 1183 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | HONINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1980. Fieldwalking. About 640m (700 yards) northeast of Church Farm.
Early Saxon and Iron Age? sherds.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM), 30 March 1981.
Two low mounds on prominent spur here - but not obvious barrows.
A. Lawson (NAU).
March 1979 (reported to NAU in 1982). Finds from north part site. Finder's site 20.
Twenty prehistoric (Iron Age?) sherds.
One Late Saxon rim sherd.
Twenty nine medieval sherds including greenglazed.
Two post medieval stoneware sherds.
Scatter of Neolithic flint including two cores.
Twenty five flakes.
Two scrapers.
Two retouched pieces.
One piece iron slag.
One fragment Mayen lava millstone.
Two fragments iron, undated.
Flint identified by A. Lawson (NAU).
S. Margeson (NCM), May 1980.
July 1983. Fieldwalking again of above site.
Further flint: one two platformed blade core fragment, two keeled cores (one of them with blade scars), two blades, sixteen flakes, one scraper, four possibly retouched flakes.
Two flint and sand gritted sherds, one of them indeterminate, the other with fingertip rustication and probably Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Two copper alloy ammunition fragments, cartridge case dated 1944 with Ministry of Defence cypher, and fragment of some abominable mortar fragment. Area believed to have been a shooting range in World War Two.
Pottery and flint identified by F. Healy (NAU).
Ammunition identified by E. Rose (NAU).
F. Healy (NAU), 27 July 1983.
28 June 1985.
Further sherds including some with thumbnail decoration in West Harling style.
Identified by A. Gregory.
Information from [1].
W. Milligan (NCM), 3 July 1985.
June 2002.
No sign of mounds now on crest of rise which is planted with young trees.
Information from D. Gurney (NLA).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 June 2002.
June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The assessment of the aerial photographs for this area as part of the NMP project revealed no convincing traces of these earthwork mounds. The area is covered in what would appear to be natural undulations. Consultation of the 1940s aerial photograph, for example (S1), also revealed no sign of the suggested firing range at this site. See NHER 34084 and 53629 for nearby military training sites that could be related to the finds of ammunition.
S. Horlock (NMP), 08 June 2010.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Unknown date)
- FIRING RANGE? (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- MILLSTONE (Undated)
- POT (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (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)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC? to 401 BC?)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WHETSTONE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- AMMUNITION (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1428 3027-8 16-APR-1946 (NMR). |
Related records - none
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