Record Details

NHER Number:25181
Type of record:Monument
Name:Multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting at this site has recovered undated ironworking slag, prehistoric worked and burnt flints, Iron Age and Roman pottery fragments, a medieval lead weight and a post medieval clay pipe bowl and token.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 13 92
Map Sheet:TM19SW
Parish:BUNWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1988. Fieldwalking. East of Banyard's Hall.
Iron Age flint gritted sherd.
Prehistoric flints, two flakes and one battered burnt flint.
Clay pipe bowl circa 1600.
Flint I.D. J. Wymer (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 28 February 1989.

1992. Fieldwalking and metal detecting. Site 1 east of Banyard's Hall.
Marked scatter of fine crackled flint in ploughsoil.
Twelve Iron Age flint gritted sherds (one rim).
Four very worn Roman greyware.
Two flint scrapers - prehistoric.
Medieval lead conical weight, pierced centrally.
Charles I Royal Farthing token 1634-6. Maltravers 'round'.
Iron slag.
Marcasite nodule fragment (iron sulphide).
W. Milligan (NCM), 18 August 1992.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

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