Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25663 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period flint and pottery finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1986 and 1996 recovered worked flints, a Neolithic axe and some pot boilers. Also found were medieval and post medieval pottery fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2042 7984 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM27NW |
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| Parish: | BROCKDISH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1986. Fieldwalking.
Found in fieldwalking at 15 to 20 metre intervals.
Medieval and post medieval sherds. Few pot boilers and flints.
See extract of dissertation (S1) by [1] in file. Remainder in parish file.
E. Rose (NLA) 10 January 1990.
October 1992-December 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Field survey on proposed route of bypass (Field 4385; Context 2):
10 prehistoric flint flakes.
1 ?Neolithic flint ?axe.
See report (S2) and plans and lists in file for further details. The results of this survey are also noted in (S3).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.178).
E. Rose (NLA), 31 March 1993.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015 and 5 December 2022.
March-May 1995. Watching Brief.
A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass.
Observation and metal-detecting of stripped surface.
No archaeologically-significant features observed and no finds recovered.
See report (S4) for further information and NHER 31423 for details of unstratified metal objects recovered from relocated topsoil being used to form banks at unspecified locations along the bypass route. This work is also noted in (S5).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.333).
P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015. Amended 16 December 2022.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
- 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> | Unpublished Document: Christine M. Miers. 1984. Dissertation. A study of Brockdish in the county of Norfolk.. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Report of Fieldwork on the A143 Brockdish-Needham Bypass 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 14. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 115-123. p 117. |
| <S4> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 1995. Report on Watching Brief on the Brockdish - Needham Bypass. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 134. |
| <S5> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1996. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1995. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 397-412. p 398. |
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