Record Details

NHER Number:24486
Type of record:Monument
Name:Iron Age settlement and multi-period finds

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
Map Sheet:TL79NW
Parish:METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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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