Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23776 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric and Roman finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking in 1987 recovered a number of ?Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints. Four Roman coins, a Roman ?furniture fitting and two pieces of Roman pot were found during subsequent metal-detecting in 2004.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 21 05 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
12 April 1987. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] west of ditch, west of Harford Bridges:
1 ?Mesolithic flint core and 1 blade.
1 Neolithic flint core and 1 scraper.
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU). Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM), 15 May 1987.
Information from (S1). Discoveries reported in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 March 2014.
February-March 2004. Metal-detecting.
4 Roman coins, 2 pottery sherds (1 pseudo samian, 1 greyware) and 1 ?furniture fitting (stud).
1 modern furniture handle.
Pottery identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), coins by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 April 2004.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 25 February 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1988. Archaeological Discoveries for 1987. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 33 pp 30-56. p 47. |
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