Record Details

NHER Number:31102
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of ring ditch and multi-period finds

Summary

A ring ditch, probably dating to the Bronze Age, is visible as a cropmark and a soilmark on aerial photographs. Prehistoric flint implements, and fragments of pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval period, and medieval and post medieval metalwork, found during fieldwalking.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 725 267
Map Sheet:TF72NW
Parish:FLITCHAM WITH APPLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

2 March 1973. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive cropmarks/soilmarks of ring ditch.
D. Voisey (NLA) 22 February 1996.

March 1994.
Prehistoric flint.
Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds, slag.
Medieval tiles etc.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 February 1995.

1995. Fieldwalking finds.
Iron Age, Roman, medieval sherds.
Medieval/Post medieval metalwork.
Details in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 May 1995.

Monument Types

  • RING DITCH (evidence: cropmarks and soilmarks, Undated)

Associated Finds

  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
  • POT (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (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)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • KNIFE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: OS 73-003-139.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

Related records - none

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