Record Details

NHER Number:23344
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting in advance of the construction of Dickleburgh bypass recovered one prehistoric flint scraper, Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery fragments and an unidentified Roman coin.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 1680 8326
Map Sheet:TM18SE
Parish:BURSTON WITH SHIMPLING, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Winter 1986. Fieldwalking bypass line - 'Field 5'.
Good conditions, light cereal, though part waterlogged.
Four sections 50m long.
Flint scraper; Roman micaceous and greyware; medieval to post medieval pottery. See file for details.
Finder [1].
I.D. A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 19 February 1987.

April 1990.
Roman grey ware sherd with notched decoration. Ex [2].
D. Gurney (NAU), 19 June 1990.

Metal detecting on bypass lineby [3].
Unidentified sestertius. See list in file.
D. Gurney (NAU), 24 July 1990.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 1000000 BC to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (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)
  • 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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