Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35647 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Undated pit and multi-period finds |
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Summary
A Watching Brief during the excavation of sewer pipe trench recorded a single undated possible pit. Finds recovered including a potentially Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blade, various Late Neolithic/Bronze worked flints, two Roman coins, a medieval/post-medieval strap fitting and a small assemblage of undatable iron and copper alloy objects.
Images - none
Location
Full description
18 to 26 September 2000. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks for a new sewer rising main.
A small undated pit was the only potentially archaeologically signficant feature observed. Finds recovered included 44 worked flints and 102 metal objects. The majority of the worked flints were of probable Late Neolithic/Bronze Age date, although one patinated blade was possibly Mesolithic/Early Neolithic. The bulk of the metal finds were modern (including 51 nails) and therefore discarded. The 26 objects that were retained included 2 Roman coins, a medieval/post-medieval riveted ?stiffening plate, 2 undatable horseshoe fragments and various undatable iron and copper alloy strips and unidentifiable fragments.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.450).
D. Gurney, (NLA) 29 January 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2014 and 27 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- PIT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- HORSESHOE (Unknown date)
- ROD (Unknown date)
- SHEET (Unknown date)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- CORE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE? (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING? (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- NAIL (Early 20th Century to 21st Century - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 2001. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at Buxton with Lammas. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 550. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2001. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 2000. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt IV pp 707-728. p 710. |
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