Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24493 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval occupation site |
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Summary
Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a few prehistoric worked flints and pieces of medieval pot. A concentration of medieval pot, shell and bone was identified. This is evidence for medieval occupation. Later fieldwalking and metal-detecting between 1994 and 2014 recovered medieval and post-medieval coins, a post-medieval jetton and medieval to post-medieval buckles, medieval horse harness pendants and a post-medieval sword belt mount.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 71 95 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
28 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: weathered ploughsoil, well developed cereal.
Context 1. MTW FV
Odd fragments of medieval pottery, and one or two flints.
Also one Roman.
Context 2 at TL 7120 9501. MTW 155.
Concentration of medieval pottery, shell and bone on a slightly raised area beside infilled dyke, and running down to road. Chalky soil. 51m northeast to southwest x 48m northwest to southeast. Roughly triangular.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 March 1988.
FOR FULL DETAILS OF WARES, FLINT TYPES ETC SEE (S1).
15 January 1994. Fieldwalking of field by [1].
Scatter of animal bone and shell, some burnt flint and daub.
Medieval and post-medieval sherds including curfew.
Medieval harness pendant.
Full details in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 February 1994.
November-December 2010. Metal-detecting.
Medieval, medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval metal objects.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (HES), 10 January 2011.
February-March 2014. Metal-detecting. [2].
3 medieval coins and a horse harness pendant.
1 post-medieval coin, 1 jetton and a buckle.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 1 April 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (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)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (12th Century to 13th Century - 1175 AD to 1300 AD)
- COIN (13th Century - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- COIN (13th Century - 1248 AD to 1250 AD)
- COIN (16th Century - 1526 AD to 1529 AD)
- BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1540 AD to 1650 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SWORD BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1584 AD)
- COIN (17th Century - 1645 AD to 1646 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 155. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW FV. FENS. |
| --- | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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