Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5687 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Post medieval gun flint pits |
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Summary
Post medieval gun flint pits were reportedly found here in 1933. A single pit identified as an earthwork on imagery from a lidar survey flown in 2015 may be a former flint mine.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 835 873 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL88NW |
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| Parish: | LYNFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Old gun flint pits found by 'G.F.' 6 April 1933.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
December 2017. 'Brecks from Above' and Breckland National Mapping Programme.
A single pit, visible as an earthwork on imagery from a recent lidar survey (S1), may be the remains of one of the post-medieval flint pits or mines described above. It is partially surrounded by a curvilinear bank of spoil, similar to that evident at many post-medieval flint mining sites. It is likely that the earthwork still survives, although a survey of this area could not identify any pits at this site with any certainty (S2).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 15 December 2017.
Monument Types
- FLINT MINE? (Unknown date)
- PIT? (Unknown date)
- FLINT MINE? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PIT? (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
- QUARRY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 NW M [2]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Lynford. |
| <S1> | LIDAR Airborne Survey: Various. LIDAR Airborne Survey. LIDAR Santon Forest Research 0.5m DTM 15-JUL-2015 (BNG Project, FC England, Fugro Geospatial). |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: The Breckland Society. 2016. Flint in the Brecks. p26. |
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