NHER 1518 (Monument record) - Possible ring ditch, Neolithic pottery sherds, Iron Age to medieval objects

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Summary

From 1951 objects have been recovered from this area, including Neolithic, Roman, Middle Saxon, and medieval pottery sherds. An undated bone pin, an Iron Age coin, Roman coins and quern fragments have also been retrieved here. An aerial photograph of this area from 1976 is also thought to record the cropmarks of an undated ring ditch.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF63SE
Civil Parish	SNETTISHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1951. Stray Find.
Scatter. [1]
Roman pottery and Niedermendig lava [2].
Five sherds Ipswich ware, including two rims.
Fragment of a bone pin [3], (S1) confirmed by C. Dallas (NAU), 1978.
Glazed medieval sherd [4].
The sherds from this site include those from two Early Neolithic plain bowl pots and a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Grooved Ware vessel [5]. See drawings (S2) and (S3).
Identified by F. Healy 1978. Information from (S4).

Pre 1978. Somewhere within this area found with metal detector:
Iceni pattern horse (See S5), double crescent and wreath coin.
Not seen NAU.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 24 June 1987.
Also Republican denarius obverse reads TITUS VETRUS, reverse reads ROMA 137BC (Crawford p.234.1)
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NAU), 10 July 1987.

24 April 1976. Ordnance Survey aerial photography.
Ring ditch.
Compiled by D. Voisey (NLA), 22 January 1996.

Associated Sources (13)

--- SNF47951 Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1967. OS 67-069-069.
--- SNF62073 Article in Serial: Healy, F. 1984. Recent Finds of Neolithic Bowl Pottery in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt I pp 65-82.
--- SNF87261 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Snettisham [2].
--- SNF87263 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Snettisham.
--- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Snettisham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 73 SW 4.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF6447 Article in Serial: Hurst, J. G. 1957. Saxo-Norman pottery in East Anglia. Part II Thetford Ware. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol L (for 1956) pp 29-60. p 35.
<S2> SNF81799 Illustration: Healey, F. 1978. Drawing of an Early Neolithic plain bowl pottery sherd. Film. 1:1.
<S3> SNF93361 Illustration: Healey, F. 1978. Drawing of an Early Neolithic plain bowl pottery sherd. Film. 1:1.
<S4> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. pp 614-615.
<S5> SNF6844 Monograph: Mack, R.P.. 1964. Ancient British Coinage.. 192, 408. (Mack pp414-5, 440.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

RING DITCH (Unknown date)

Object Types (9)

POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
POT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
PIN (Undated)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)