Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22982 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boilers and flints and Roman pottery |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1986 noted a small scatter of prehistoric flints and pot boilers. Several Roman pottery sherds were found here in 2023.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 67 11 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
16 October 1986. Fenland fieldwalking WGY 9. Not ploughed, surface weathered and disced.
Along gravelly sand ridge protruding from peat by about 0.4m scatter of pot boilers and odd flints. Nowhere are pot boilers particularly dense. NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU), 19 October 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.
March 2023. Stray Find. [1].
Found during agricultural/drainage works:
4 Roman pottery sherds.
Information from PAS import.
Extended to whole field. Previous extent recorded as Context 1.
P. Watkins (HES), 24 April 2025.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WGY 9. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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