Record Details

NHER Number:22655
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered a general scatter of prehistoric worked flints and fragments of Roman, Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery. A concentration of fragments of prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and medieval pottery was identified. This includes pieces of a Bronze Age collared urn.

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Location

Grid Reference:TM 3912 9795
Map Sheet:TM39NE
Parish:HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1985. Fieldwalking Hales Survey, Heckingham site 2.
Ploughed and sown surface good, barley not germinated.
Soil sandier to north.

Context 1. General scatter.
Flints; one core, one scraper on shatter piece, two flakes with slight retouch, three flakes, two blades, Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
Four Roman greyware
Two Thetford type Late Saxon plus four either Roman or Thetford type.
Four medieval unglazed, four late medieval/transitional.
Nine post medieval.

Context 2 at 3910 9796.
Bronze Age collared urn sherd, with part of collar.
Rim and four sherds flint gritted Late Bronze Age/Iron Age?
Roman greyware colander sherd.
Ipswich ware pimply sherd.
Late Saxon Thetford type rim and four probable sherds.
Two probable medieval unglazed and one unglazed red earthenware.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) and J.J. Wymer (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 20 June 1986.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 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

---*Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 2. Hales.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.

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