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March-June 2003. Desk-based Assessment.
Assessment for Stage 2 Environmental Assessment of A11 Attleborough Bypass Improvement Scheme.
See report (S1) for details.
P. Watkins (HES), 8 June 2015.

September-October 2003. Test Pitting.
Eleven test pits excavated on route of A11 Attleborough Bypass Improvement Scheme (Test Pits 4-14).
Archaeologically significant features included a sub-circular prehistoric pit which produced an assemblage of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery, a small number of worked flints and a toggle-shaped bone (or possibly jet) object. Burnt flints, charcoal and fired clay fragments were noted within the fills of this feature. Animal bone was also present, including a butchered cattle jaw and several red deer antler fragments. The worked flints include a blade core and two neat thin blades suggesting at least some are residual from an earlier, Mesolithic or Early Neolithic phase of activity.
A linear feature in an adjacent test pit produced two sherds of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery and may therefore have been of a similar date to the pit. Although the pottery is potentially residual it was however noted that the fill of this feature was very similar to the upper fill of the pit.
See report (S2) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S3).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.575).
This record initially documented the results of all work undertaken as part of this evaluation. The evidence recovered during trial trenching and test pitting at other sites along the route of the scheme is now recorded separately under NHERs 60794-60798.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 June 2015.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC)
• DITCH (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC? to 401 BC?)
• FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
• LINEAR FEATURE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 900 BC? to 500 BC?)
• PIT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 900 BC to 500 BC)

Associated Finds

• BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
• BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
• BURNT FLINT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
• POT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
• TOGGLE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)

Protected Status - none

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• Parish Summary: Attleborough (Parish Summary)