Record Details

NHER Number:7005
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric flints and pot boilers, Bronze Age to post medieval pottery sherds

Summary

Fieldwalking in the 1960s and 1970s recovered a number of prehistoric flint flakes and scrapers, as well as pot boilers. Pottery sherds from the prehistoric to post medieval periods have also been recovered. Cropmarks previously recorded under this number have been moved to NHER 39211.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 332 324
Map Sheet:TG33SW
Parish:WITTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

OS Field 36.

1960s - 1970s. Fieldwalking.
Fieldwalking in the 1960s and 1970s recovered a number of prehistoric flint flakes and scrapers, as well as pot boilers. Pottery sherds from the prehistoric to post medieval periods have also been recovered.
See secondary file and (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 19 April 1982.

15 August 1995. NLA aerial photography.
Cropmark visible.
H. Clare (NLA), 12 July 2001.

January 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Cropmarks previously recorded under this NHER number (context 7) have now been moved to NHER 39211. See also field system cropmarks NHER 39212.
J. Albone (NMP), 13 January 2005

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 19th Century - 1000000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • BRICK (Undated)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • POT (Undated)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
  • STRAP FITTING (Undated)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
  • WHETSTONE (Undated)
  • BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BORER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1995. NHER TG 3332ABX (NLA 357/HHJ19) 15-AUG-1995.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Correspondence: Robins, P.. 1989. J.E Owles flint collection brought in to Castle Museum for identification.. 5 April.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Witton [2].
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Witton.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Witton - NHER 7056.
<S1>Article in Serial: Lawson, A. J. 1983. The Archaeology of Witton, near North Walsham. East Anglian Archaeology. No 18.

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