Record Details

NHER Number:24436
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flints, Iron Age and medieval pottery sherds

Summary

Fenland fieldwalking in 1988 recovered a couple of prehistoric flints and sherds of Iron Age and medieval pottery from the field here.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 6089 9556
Map Sheet:TL69NW
Parish:SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Fenland fieldwalking. Ploughed and weathered with beans growing.
Context 1: general scatter. Odd flints across field. Site SRY BB.
Context 2: at 6101 9550. Concentration of Iron Age pottery (sparse) but no other obvious Iron Age material. (However a couple of medieval sherds collected.) 49m north-south by 48m east-west.
R. Silvester (NAU) 10 March 1988.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY 16. FENS.
---*Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. SRY BB. FENS.

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