Record Details

NHER Number:29524
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds scatter

Summary

Fieldwalking in advance of the Scole to Dickleburgh Road Improvement Scheme recovered prehistoric worked flints including a ?Mesolithic implement and Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 1651 8149
Map Sheet:TM18SE
Parish:DICKLEBURGH AND RUSHALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1992-January 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field Survey on route of Scole-Dickleburgh road improvement (6645):
3 undatable prehistoric flint flakes.
1 broken flint 'pick' - possibly a Mesolithic implement?
3 Roman pottery sherds.
5 medieval sherds.
6 post-medieval pottery sherds.
See report (S1) for further details. See also report on desk-based evaluation of the road's proposed route (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 26 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 January 2014 and 31 March 2015.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • PICK? (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • 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

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. and Tester, A. 1993. Report of Fieldwork in Norfolk and Suffolk on the Scole-Dickleburgh Road Improvement. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 43.
<S2>Unpublished Contractor Report: Emery, P. 1992. Report of the Archaeological Evaluation of the Scole-Dickleburgh Road Improvement. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 41.

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