Record Details
NHER Number: | 24486 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Iron Age settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked and burnt flint and pieces of Iron Age, Roman and medieval pot. A concentration of Iron Age pot was found. This is indicative of Iron Age settlement.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 7244 9537 |
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Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
28 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: good. Weathered soil, young cereal.
Context 1. MTW GE.
Odd sherds of Iron Age and medieval pottery, pot boilers and flint flakes scattered across central part of field.
Context 2 at TL 7248 9536. MTW 161.
Concentration of Iron Age pot with a few burnt pebbles and fragments of bone, possible in darker soil. On top of
large natural hollow on chalk hillside sloping down to fen. Around 45m northwest to southeast x 40m northeast to southwest.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 April 1988.
Also Roman and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age sherds from context 1.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- 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)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 161. FENS. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW GE. FENS. |
--- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
<S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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