Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32859 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds, Mill Drove Pit |
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Summary
Neolithic and Bronze Age worked flints, medieval building materials, post medieval tiles, pottery and other objects were found during an evaluation carried out in 1997 prior to carstone extraction.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6705 1504 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61NE |
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| Parish: | MIDDLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1997. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey and Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed quarry extension.
Field survey recovered Neolithic/Bronze Age flints, medieval building material and various post-medieval finds.
Trenching revealed no archaeologically significant features or deposits.
Lack of Iron Age and Roman finds particularly notable.
See report (S1) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA) 15 September 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
- BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COLLAR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HORSESHOE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PUNCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Crowson, A. 1998. Field Survey of Proposed Quarry Extension at Blackborough End, Middleton. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 289. |
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