Record Details

NHER Number:31204
Type of record:Monument
Name:Prehistoric flint working site

Summary

The number of prehistoric worked flints found by fieldwalking on this site suggests that this may have been a flint working site in the prehistoric period. Medieval and post medieval pottery and metalwork has been found by metal detecting.

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Location

Grid Reference:TG 49 04
Map Sheet:TG40SE
Parish:BURGH CASTLE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

1995. Fieldwalking.
2 struck flakes and other possible flint knapping waste.
Identified E. Rose (NLA)
D. Gurney (NLA) 4 April 1995.

August 1998. Metal detecting finds.
Worked flint.
Medieval/post medieval sherd.
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See list in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA) 4 October 1998.

Monument Types

  • LITHIC WORKING SITE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • AMPULLA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SCABBARD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SCABBARD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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