Record Details
NHER Number: | 20576 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Prehistoric and Roman finds |
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Summary
In 1970 a concentration of Roman tiles was identified at this location. In the early 1980s a prehistoric quern, possible Mesolithic flint blades and a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead were found at the same location.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 66 20 |
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Map Sheet: | TF62SE |
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Parish: | BAWSEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1970. Found about 110m (100yds) northwest of ruined church in 1970.
Concentration of Roman tile, but no indication of Roman occupation.
Information form member of the public [1].
This discovery was reported in (S1).
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 28 March 1990.
1980s. Stray Find.
Found by [2] near Bawsey church ruins on surface of arable field:
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age small barbed and tanged arrowhead.
A number of other finds from this field were amongst items subsequently given to the King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1992.317), including:
1 prehistoric flint quern fragment.
15 Mesolithic patinated blades.
J. J. Wymer (NAU) 16 August 1984. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 December 2013.
Part of large scatter NHER 25962.
April 2001.
Scheduled.
See file NHER 3328.
D. Gurney (NLA) 23 January 2002.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Designation: English Heritage. 2001. Schedule Report. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Serial: 1970. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1970. No 17. pp 3-4. |
<S1> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Records / Pastscape. |
Related records
25962 | Part of: Roman, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval settlement (Monument) |
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