Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23120 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Middle Saxon ditches and burials plus multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey in 1986 recovered a few pieces of prehistoric worked flint and possible medieval pottery sherds. Later fieldwalking before the laying of a pipeline recovered many more objects including a concentration of Middle Saxon pottery, a Middle Saxon facetted head pin and a Late Saxon coin of Coenwulf. Excavation undertaken before the pipeline was constructed revealed Middle Saxon ditches and burials. Metal-detecting in 2012 recovered a medieval coin and medieval/post-medieval copper alloy rings.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
19 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking. [1]
Winter cereal, well weathered soil. MTW BX.
Odd fragments flint and sherds of ?medieval pottery.
R. Silvester (NAU), 24 November 1986.
See published report (S1) and project achive (S2) for further details.
February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline. Context 2 centred at [2].
Concentration of Middle Saxon pottery, facetted head pin, bronze object, lead fragments, coin of Coenwulf, Roman and post medieval sherds.
Concentration continues as other sites: [3].
See reports (S3) and (S4) for further details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015.
April-August 1992. Excavation.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Excavation undertaken before pipeline constructed revealed Middle Saxon ditches and burials and small finds. Other finds recovered included Beaker, Bronze Age and Iron Age sherds.
See report (S4) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S5).
E. Rose (NLA), 13 May 1992
1993 to 1994. Fieldwalking. Just east of excavated area in a 'low area'.
Roman tile fragment.
Five Middle Saxon sherds (one rim, two body sherds pimply Ipswich Ware, two body sherds smoother grey fabric).
D. Gurney (NLA), 25 August 1994.
Before 6 June 2012. Metal-detecting. [4].
The object previously recorded here are now recorded under NHER 59582.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 12 March 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- DITCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- INHUMATION (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
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- KNIFE (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- KNIFE (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- QUERN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- WHETSTONE (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- COIN (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: Fenland Survey. MTW BX. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| <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> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1993. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1992. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt IV pp 522-532. p 530. |
Related records
| 23670 | Related to: Multi-period finds from field between Thornham Road and String Drain, Fenland Survey and Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Find Spot) |
| 23213 | Related to: Prehistoric occupation site in field south of Thornham Road north of wood (Monument) |
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