Record Details

NHER Number:18242
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Prehistoric flint flakes, Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery have been found by fieldwalking on this site. The cropmarks of a ring ditch have been identified within the vicinity of these finds (NHER 50746).

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0538 1757
Map Sheet:TG01NE
Parish:ELSING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

The ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 50746.

16 June 1980. NAU air photography.
Context 2 at grid reference.
Positive cropmarks of ring ditch.
S. Norton (NAU) 2 July 1982.

September 1986.
Context 1. Fieldwalking in poor conditions over ring ditch and remainder of field to northeast.
18 Roman greyware:-
Possibly only 2 pots and unusually gritty.
1 medieval unglazed.
13 flint scrapers and 1 end scraper. (Identified by J. Gardiner (NAU)).
Identified by A. Gregory (NAU) and A. Rogerson (NAU) September 1986.

28 February 1997.
Ring ditch plotted on ground. See plot in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 28 February 1997.

December 2007. Norfolk NMP.
The ring ditch previously recorded under this number is now under NHER 50746.
S. Massey (NMP), 19 December 2007.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG 0517K,L.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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