Record Details

NHER Number:23342
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in advance of the Dickleburgh bypass recovered prehistoric worked flints, fragments of medieval to post medieval pottery and one possible fragment of Roman pottery from this area. Later metal detecting on the same site uncovered a post medieval French jetton and two Roman coins.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 17 83
Map Sheet:TM18SE
Parish:DICKLEBURGH AND RUSHALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Winter 1986. Fieldwalking of bypass line. 'Field 2'.
Ten 50m sections walked, poor conditions.
Flint tools.
Medieval to post medieval pottery including Grimston and late medieval/transitional.
One possibly Roman.
See details in file.
Finder [1].
I.D. A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 19 February 1987.

April 1990. Metal detecting.
Medieval copper alloy French jetton.
Two Roman coins.
See list in file.
Inforamtion from [2].
I.D. S. Margeson (NCM) and D. Gurney (NAU).
D. Gurney (NAU), 19 June 1990.

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)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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