Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21055 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age occupation and Iron Age settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking on this site has recovered a number of prehistoric flints, including a Neolithic flaked axehead. A fragment of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age pottery has also been found, suggesting that this site was occupied during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. This was also the site of a settlement during the Early Iron Age, and a concentration of Iron Age pottery has been found, as well as fragments of Roman and medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 8481 9981 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89NW |
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| Parish: | HILBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
25 December 1984. Fieldwalking.
On surface of ploughed field on land sloping down to the Blackwater tributary of the River Wissey. Sandy, gravelly soil. Context 4 at TL 8476 0028.
Butt end of broken flaked flint axe, thermally fractured; also 5 flakes.
Found and identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU).
Finds were deposited with the Norfolk Museums Service (NWHCM: 1985.195).
Information from record card (S1).
J.J. Wymer (NAU), 2 January 1985.
Winter 1987 to 1988. Fieldwalking. Site 22.
Context 1 (centred TL 8465 0010):
Roman pottery (10 or less).
Medieval pottery (10 or less).
Context 2 (centred TL 8470 0015):
Worked flints including a high number of scrapers.
A single sherd of Late Neolithifc to Early Bonze Age pottery.
39 sherds of Early? Iron Age pottery. All undecorated, mostly gritty but some of sandy fabric.
Context 3 (centred TL 8475 9960):
Worked flint (10 or less).
Medieval pottery (10 or less)
See original unpublished descriptions in file for NHER 24669.
Information from published journal article (S2).
E. Rose (NAU), 29 June 1988. Amended S. Spooner (NLA), 27 February 2006. Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 24 January 2022.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- OCCUPATION SITE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)
- SETTLEMENT (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRIQUETAGE (Undated)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- POT (Early Iron Age - 800 BC? to 401 BC?)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <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. |
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