Record Details

NHER Number:40406
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age flint working site

Summary

Fifty-eight Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age worked flints, part of a medieval or post medieval vessel leg, a post medieval furniture fitting and a post medieval coin were found here by metal detecting. The number of worked flint tools and flakes recovered suggests this was a flint working site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 21 03
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:CAISTOR ST EDMUND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
SWARDESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

2003 to 2004. Metal detecting.
Undatable prehistoric (probably Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age) flints.
One post medieval coin.
Medieval and post medieval metal objects.
See lists and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 May 2004.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • LITHIC WORKING SITE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BORER (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • CORE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)
  • VESSEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Finder's Map..

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