Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24679 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible prehistoric burnt mound and Low Common Farm |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric flints and pieces of Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pot. An area of prehistoric burnt flints, possibly a burnt mound, was also located. This is also the site of Low Common Farm, a medieval to post medieval farmhouse.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1986-7. Fieldwalking. Field LC7.
List in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1988.
Context 1A.
One flint.
One Roman grey.
One shelly Roman or St Neots.
Twelve medieval unglazed.
One reduced with internal glaze probably medieval.
Six glazed Grimston including one post medieval.
Two post medieval stoneware.
Context 1B.
One flint.
Twenty five medieval unglazed.
Twelve glazed Grimston.
One medieval glazed, micaceous with red inclusions.
Seven late medieval/transitional.
One post medieval bichrome.
One late post medieval glazed.
One hard grey probably post medieval.
Seven glazed red earthenware.
One post medieval stoneware.
Two unidentified unglazed.
Context 2.
Seven flints.
Three Roman coarse.
One Roman grey.
Twenty two medieval unglazed.
Four glazed Grimston.
Late medieval/transitional.
One glazed red earthenware.
One Iron Age gritty.
One ?Iron Age lightly gritted.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 3 May 2006.
For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.
(S2) describes this as the site of Low Common Farm, demolished in recent times. Medieval and post medieval pot was collected from here and the field nearby. This was one of a group of buildings around the edges of the Low and High Common.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FARM (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. pp 67, 69. |
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