Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35652 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pits and post holes at Shrublands Quarry, Aldeby |
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Summary
A series of pits and post holes have been excavated at this site by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit. A few have contained material of prehistoric date and one contained a sherd of medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 4721 9248 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM49SE |
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| Parish: | BURGH ST PETER, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September 2000. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of topsoil stripping at Shrublands Quarry (Phase 4).
Recorded one posthole and five pits, one with a prehistoric flint and another with burnt animal bone.
See report (S1) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.178).
D. Gurney (NLA), 8 March 2001.
October 2003. Watching Brief
Monitoring of next phase of topsoil stripping at Shrublands Quarry. Contexts 20-41.
Five pits, a ditch and a solution hole were excavated. One of the pits produced a medieval pottery sherd and another contained a piece of burnt flint. The fills of a solution hollow produced a piece of post medieval tile.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
J. Allen (NLA), 2 October 2006.
Monument Types
- PIT (Unknown date)
- POST HOLE (Unknown date)
- HEARTH (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PIT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
- BURNT FLINT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Ames, J. 2001. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at Shrublands Quarry, Aldeby, Burgh St Peter. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 579. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Holderness, H. 2004. An Archaeological Watching Brief at Shrublands Quarry, Aldeby, Burgh St Peter, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 883. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. 2004. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2003. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt III pp 573-588. p 575. |
Related records
| 31317 | Related to: Prehistoric features, Shrublands Quarry (Monument) |
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