Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31738 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flint finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1996 recovered prehistoric worked flints; a number of potentially prehistoric burnt flints; small quantities of Roman, medieval, post-medieval and post-medieval/modern pottery; a post-medieval clay tobacco pipe stem; post-medieval or later ceramic building material fragments; a piece of post-medieval or later vessel glass; an undated stone hone; fragments of slag and a small number of undatable metal objects.
Images - none
Location
Full description
January 1996. Fieldwalking Survey.
Field survey on route of Ormesby Bypass. Finds recovered included:
4 prehistoric flint flakes and 1 blade.
10 ?prehistoric burnt flints ('pot boilers').
1 Roman pottery sherd.
1 medieval pottery sherd.
7 post-medieval pottery sherd and 1 clay tobacco pipe stem.
5 post-medieval/modern pottery sherds.
4 post-medieval or later roof tiles, 3 pantiles, 11 brick fragments and 11 undiagnostic brick/tile fragments and fragment of vessel glass.
1 undated stone hone fragment, 3 slag fragments, 2 lead droplets and 21 iron objects.
Information from published report (S1).
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.10).
E. Rose (NLA), 25 January 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 April 2019 and 1 July 2021.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
Associated Finds
- SLAG (Unknown date)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- WASTE (Unknown date)
- WHETSTONE (Unknown date)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
- BUILDING MATERIAL (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PANTILE (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 2000 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Monograph: Wallis, H. and Anderson, S. 2009. A Medieval Cemetery at Mill Lane, Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 130. Appendix. |
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