Record Details

NHER Number:21458
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Iron Age settlement and multi-period finds scatter

Summary

This is the site of an Iron Age settlement. Prehistoric flints, Roman brooches, coins and other metalwork and fragments of pottery dating from the late prehistoric to the post medieval periods have been found by fieldwalking and metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 73 02
Map Sheet:TF70SW
Parish:BARTON BENDISH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

6 February 1985. Fieldwalking of 30 sq. m transect of field, medium conditions, growing cereal.
Context 1.
2 prehistoric? flint gritted.
30 probably all medieval unglazed.
5 glazed Grimston.
Identified A. Rogerson (NAU) Spring 1985.

January 1988. BB 874 to 879. Contexts 4 to 7.
Contexts 3 to 4 metal detecting survey.
Roman coins, brooches and a finger ring.
Plot filed under NHER 25058.
A. Rogerson (NAU) January 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • 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)
  • BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS MOUNT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • MIRROR CASE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PURSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP END (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DRESS FASTENER (DRESS) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 260. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 874. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 875. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 876. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 877. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 878. BB.
---*Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 879. BB.
---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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