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Record Details

NHER Number:	22673
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal-detecting at this site between 1986 and 2013 has recovered a range of objects, including potentially prehistoric burnt flints; Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints; Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman and medieval coins and a small number of other, medieval to post-medieval metal objects.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TM 39 99
Map Sheet:	TM39NE
Parish:	HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
	NORTON SUBCOURSE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1986. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 28.
Good conditions, winter cereal.

Two flakes.
Five medieval unglazed sherds.
One late medieval/transitional.
Five post medieval.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 23 June 1986.

January 2004. Metal detecting. Site extended to cover field to east. Some confusion which object was found in which field.
Two medieval and two post medieval metal objects.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 6 March 2004.

Grid reference altered from [1].
A. Cattermole (NLA) 1 June 2004.

September 2004. Metal detecting.
Three medieval coins.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 November 2004.

January 2005. Metal detecting.
Three Roman coins (including two 4th century stuck together) near road in south part of east field.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 March 2005.

November 2013. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey of proposed extension to Norton Subcourse Quarry (Extraction Phases 11-13).
The small assemblage of finds recovered comprised:
24 Neolithic or Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints, including 1 core fragment, 19 flakes and flake fragments, 3 blades/blade fragments and 1 end scraper.
8 ?prehistoric burnt flints.
5 Roman pottery sherds.
2 medieval pottery sherds.
3 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherds.
21 post-medieval pottery sherds.
No significant concentrations of material were identified.
The metal-detecting recovered only modern objects and other recent debris.
See report (S2) for further details and NHER 61880 for information on subsequent trial trenching.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2016.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC? to 42 AD?)
BLADE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
CORE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 1501 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HOOKED TAG (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	*Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 28. Hales.
---	Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---	Photograph: 2004. KVC 33-34, Medieval strapend..
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.
<S2>	Unpublished Contractor Report: Simmonds, C., Burke, J. and Wolframm-Murray, Y. 2014. Archaeological evaluation, northern and southern extensions, Norton Subcourse Quarry, Norfolk, November 2013. MOLA. 14/20.