Record Details

NHER Number:25400
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric and medieval finds

Summary

Oyster shell, animal bones, one burnt prehistoric flint and medieval pottery were found in the spoil left after construction work on this site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 1351 8370
Map Sheet:TM18SW
Parish:BURSTON WITH SHIMPLING, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1989. Finds from spoil on building site to west and north of barn. Home Farm, Mill Road.
Grid reference supplied by finders.
Oyster shell.
Animal bone.
One pot boiler.
Medieval pottery: bulk 13th/14th century unglazed, some glazed Grimston and late medieval or early post medieval ware; very little glazed red earthenware; one body sherd with glaze on white slip (import?).
Lava quern fragment.
I.D. A. Rogerson (NAU) and D. Gurney (NAU).
D. Gurney (NAU), 11 August 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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