Record Details

NHER Number:25664
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period flint and pottery finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1985 and 1993 recovered flints, pot boilers, a Neolithic knife and post medieval pottery fragments.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 2062 8004
Map Sheet:TM28SW
Parish:BROCKDISH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1985-6. Found in fieldwalking at 15 to 20 metre intervals.
Flints, pot boilers and post medieval sherds. See extract from (S1) in file. Remainder of (S1) in parish file.
E. Rose (NLA) 10 January 1990.

October 1992-December 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Field survey on proposed route of bypass (Field 6300; Context 2):
7 prehistoric flint flakes, 1 scraper and 2 blades.
1 Neolithic flint ?knife.
See report (S2) and plans and lists in file for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), 31 March 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015.

March-May 1995. Watching Brief.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Observation and metal-detecting of stripped surface.
No archaeologically significant features or finds identified.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 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)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Christine M. Miers. 1984. Dissertation. A study of Brockdish in the county of Norfolk..
<S2>Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Report of Fieldwork on the A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 14.
<S3>Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief on the Brockdish - Needham Bypass. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 134.

Related records - none

Find out more...

Norfolk County Council logo Heritage Lottery Fund logo

Powered by HBSMR-web and the HBSMR Gateway from exeGesIS SDM Ltd, and mojoPortal CMS
© 2007 - 2024 Norfolk Historic Environment Service