Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22364 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric occupation and Roman settlement, Prehistoric, Roman and medieval to post-medieval finds |
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Summary
Two Iron Age silver coins were found in 1984. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of Iron Age, Roman and medieval pot and prehistoric worked flints. Two concentrations of material are indication of Roman settlement and a third of prehistoric occupation. Fieldwalking ahead of a pipeline found more Roman and Iron Age pot, Roman tile and a Roman barbarous radiate coin dated to AD 270 to 290. Metal-detecting between 2017 and 2019 recovered medieval roof tile fragments and a Roman flue tile fragment; Roman and post-medieval coins, a medieval jetton, a post-medieval token; an Roman enamelled plate brooch; a medieval bell; and a medieval/post-medieval ring.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1984. Context 2 [10]
Coin: either Iceni boar-horse type B early 1st century AD or another silver Iceni Boar horse - finders had confused the two.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM).
15 December 1985.
The type B coin was formerly included in NHER 21024.
24 February 1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
On weathered harrowed soil over all this field at [1].
Context 1 general scatter. MTW DGH.
Roman and medieval sherds, possibly some Iron Age, and flints including a barbed and tanged arrowhead at [2].
F. Healy (NAU) says the arrowhead is Late Neolithic.
Context 3 at [3]. MTW DF.
Spread of Iron Age sherds, not enough for a Fenland site. Also odd flint. Close to top of valley side in comparable location to context 5. 17m east to west x 15m north to south.
Also some Roman sherds from context 3.
Context 4. MTW DG.
Mixture of Roman and medieval pottery at back of what appears to be a field linchet at [4]. Initially considered that this could be material in a colluvial deposit, but in view of Roman finds (context 6) nearby conceivable that we are viewing an associated Roman scatter with medieval rubbish. About 25m east to west x 20m north to south.
Context 5 at [5]. MTW 114.
Sparse spread of Roman pottery and couple of bone fragments. Iron Age (?) pottery and some oyster shell. Close to upper edge of south slope of valley, the ground dropping gently to north. 47m east to west x less than 16m north to south at 17.7m OD.
Context 6 at [6]. MTW 115.
Moderate concentration Roman pottery and one quern fragment. On valley side of moderate slope - chalk. Extends(?)
into next field. In this field 77m east to west at 9.2m OD. If extends in NHER 22053 E. Rose (NAU).
Context 7 at [7]. MTW 116.
Sparse spread of pot boilers and one flint (discarded). On skirtland, but back from present edge of peat. 28m east to west x 19m north to south at 4.3m OD.
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 February 1987.
14 March 1988. Further fieldwalking.
Revealed that context 6 is northeast end of scatter including NHER 22053/contexts 3 and 7.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline. Context 8 at [8]. Continues as site NHER 23385 Context 3.
Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds
Roman tile fragment.
Roman coin, barbarous radiate, irregular AD 270 to 290.
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA) 10 August 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015.
April-May 2017. Metal-detecting. [11]
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 6 June 2017.
July-September 2017. Metal-detecting. [12].
1 Roman coin.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 October 2017.
October-November 2017. Metal-detecting. [13].
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy ring.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald, 1 January 2018.
December 2017-January 2018. Metal-detecting. [14].
1 Roman flue tile fragment.
2 medieval roof tile fragments.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 February 2018.
March-April 2018. Metal-detecting. [15].
Medieval gilt mount with a cross in relief (S1).
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 2 October 2018.
January-February 2019. Metal-detecting. [16].
1 Roman coin.
1 medieval jetton.
1 post-medieval token.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2019.
February-March 2019. Metal-detecting. [17].
2 Roman coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 May 2019.
March-April 2019. Metal-detecting. [18].
1 Roman coin.
2 post-medieval coins.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2019.
July-September 2019. Metal-detecting. [19].
1 Roman coin.
Medieval rumbler bell.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4 November 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
- QUERN (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 100 AD to 200 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 269 AD to 271 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 271 AD to 274 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 273 AD to 274 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 314 AD to 317 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 364 AD to 378 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 388 AD to 402 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- MOUNT (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1200 AD)
- BELL (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1300 AD)
- RING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1350 AD to 1600 AD)
- JETTON (Medieval - 1364 AD to 1380 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1636 AD to 1644 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1642 AD to 1650 AD)
- TOKEN (17th Century - 1667 AD to 1667 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 114. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 115. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 116. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW DF. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW DG. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW DH. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <S1> | Photograph: Coin CQU 18-24. |
| <S2> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. The Wellington Plantation - Stoke Ferry Pipeline. A Summary of Archaeological Work undertaken on the route of the Pipeline. February-August 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 29. |
| <S5> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2018. Drawing of a medieval mount. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1. |
Related records
| 23385 | Related to: Iron Age and Roman settlement on field between Hythe Road and Hanging Drove (Monument) |
| 22053 | Related to: Multi-period finds (Find Spot) |
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