Record Details

NHER Number:24687
Type of record:Monument
Name:Iron Age settlement

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints, an Iron Age spindle whorl and pieces of Iron Age and Roman pot. The number of Iron Age finds suggests this was an area of settlement during this period.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8592 0001
Map Sheet:TF80SE
Parish:LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC17.
Iron Age and Roman pottery.
Iron Age spindle whorl.
Flints.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes as an area of about 35000 square metres where Iron Age sherds are densely concentrated and may represent a settlement of some strength. Scattered finds in surrounding fields probably originated from the site and there is a small outlier to the east. The site lies on higher ground within a looop of the Watton Brook. There is no question of activity lasting into the Roman period. No sign of the site appears on aerial photographs.
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Map: Finder's Map..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. p 60.

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