Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25014 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Iron Age/Roman pits, Roman metalwork, coins and pottery sherds |
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Summary
Metal detecting in this area during 1988-91 recovered a variety of metal objects and coins. Finds included Roman brooches, finger rings, a bracelet, sherds of pottery and numerous coins. Medieval and post medieval metalwork and coins were also recovered and the presence of several Iron Age or Roman pits was noted.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 92 00 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SW |
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| Parish: | WATTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1988 onwards. Metal detector finds in field immediately north of Roman road 8756. See sketch plan in file by finder.
Forty-six Roman coins.
Eight brooches.
Two finger rings.
Bracelet.
Medieval and post medieval metal work and coins.
Includes former site 25281.
D. Gurney (NLAU) 21 June 1989.
January 1991. Found with metal detector.
Medieval token.
Roman brooches.
D. Gurney (NLA) 6 February 1991.
15-19 April 1991. Metal-detecting Survey.
Systematic survey by [1] of proposed development area with all artefact located within a 25m grid across the area. Finds recovered included:
13 Roman coins.
3 medieval jettons, 1 bowl rim and 1 unidentified object.
Information from report (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015.
April-May 1991. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development area.
Pits and ditches with Iron Age and Roman material revealed.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2020.81).
The specification/brief for this work issued by Norfolk Landscape Archaeology was the first to be prepared after the implementation in Norfolk of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16.
E. Rose (NAU) 6 November 1991. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015 and 19 June 2020.
1990s. Finds made during building work. Metal detecting and artefact collection from trenches and spoil heaps.
Six Roman coins.
Two post medieval coins.
Roman and undatable metal finds.
Iron Age and Roman sherds, with Iron Age being found in a cut feature.
See lists and sketch plan in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 21 December 2001.
Monument Types
- DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- PIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PIT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Undated)
- KNIFE (Unknown date)
- SPEAR (Unknown date)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SEAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPOON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. 2001. Finds Photograph. Polaroid. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1991. Site probe will delay housing. 11 March. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Wallis, H. 1991. Report of Archaeological Evaluation at Norwich Road, Watton. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 36. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1992. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk in 1991. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt III pp 371-379. p 378. |
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