Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23630 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Worked flints, Iron Age to medieval pottery sherds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1987 noted a couple of prehistoric flints, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon pottery fragments and two scatters of medieval pottery fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6553 1156 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
30 March 1987. Field east of Holly House. Fenland fieldwalking, weathered soil.
Context 1 general scatter of odd medieval sherds and couple of flints.
WGY BK. Also one Iron Age sherd.
Context 2 at 6562 1164 on line of ?Roman causeway NHER 3463, scatter of medieval sherds and one Middle Saxon. Not a real concentration. Could be redeposited in make-up material for causeway. WGY BJ.
Finds NCM
R. Silvester (NAU), 3 April 1987.
Some of the material from contexts 1 and 2 has been reidentified as Roman pottery
For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- CAUSEWAY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WGY BJ. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WGY BK. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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