Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24681 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Early Iron Age settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints and pieces of Beaker period and Iron Age pottery. The Beaker period pot was part of the base of an urn. This may be the location of a small Early Iron Age settlement.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC10.
List in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1988.
Three flints.
Thirty two plus scraps gritty Iron Age.
One base abraded late Beaker, incised reserve decoration. Identified by F. Healy (NAU).
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 3 May 2006.
For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.
(S2) describes as a very small site. The presence of a Bronze Age sherd suggests an Early Iron Age date. The position of the site is curious as it is a considerable distance from surface water.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT? (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status
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. p 60. |
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