Record Details

NHER Number:22060
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric and Roman finds

Summary

Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey recovered a sparse concentration of prehistoric burnt and worked flints and one fragment of Roman pottery.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 6918 9042
Map Sheet:TL69SE
Parish:FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

13 December 1985. Fenland fieldwalking.
In good conditions, young winter cereal.
Concentration of sparse flint, pot boilers sparse to locally abundant particularly on west side, one sherd of pottery (undated).
On top of a subcircular gravelly sandhill. Flints tend to be on top of this, pot boilers more around edge. About 52m east to west x 48m at 0.6 - 1.2m OD.
R. J. Silvester (NAU), 18 December 1985.

Fenland archive adds one Roman sherd.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

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)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 143. FENS.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Archive: Fenland Folders.

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