Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24360 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flints and potboilers and Roman cosmetic mortar |
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Summary
Fenland fieldwalking in 1988 recorded a scatter of prehistoric flints and pot boilers at this location. Metal detecting in the same area during 2004 recovered a Roman cosmetic mortar.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 63 95 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NW |
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| Parish: | SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
4 March 1988. Fenland fieldwalking, good conditions, young cereal, weathered soil. East of Black Bank Drove, north of Ringmore Drove
Context 1: general scatter odd flints and single medieval sherd, on loamy sand east edge of island. Site SRY AX.
Context 2: at 6302 9535, concentration of pot boilers, sparse, locally moderate. One flint only. On east side of island, on slope just above fen. 38m northeast-southwest x 28m northwest-southeast at 3.7m OD. Site SRY 14.
Context 3: at 6302 9530 concentration sparse pot boilers in east slope of island above fen, short distance only from context 2. 30m northeast-southwest x 27m northwest-southeast at 2.4m OD. Site SRY 15.
Finds held by NCM.
R. Silvester (NAU) 4 March 1988.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.
About October 2004. Metal detecting. At location [1].
Roman cosmetic mortar (S1).
See Portable Antiquities Scheme description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 2 March 2005.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman to Early Saxon - 100 AD to 410 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 14. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 15. FENS. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY AX. FENS. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Penn, K.. 2004. Drawing of a Roman cosmetic mortar.. Card. 2:1. |
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