NHER 16894 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds and a natural mound

December 1980. Found on surface of ploughed field, on top of slight rise. Finders site 165c.
Concentration of worked flints and twenty-three flint gritted body sherds.
One certainly and rest probably Iron Age.
A. Gregory (NAU), 2 January 1980

March 1981.
Six similar body sherds found.

1983.
More flint flakes.
Flints are as follows:
Three hammer stones.
Five cores all with flake rather than blade scars.
Two blades.
Sixty-two flakes.
One end scraper.
One side end scraper.
One piercer.
One notch.
One 'fabricator'.
Miscellaneous retouched flakes.
Probably not earlier than later Neolithic given low proportion of blades.
F. Healy (NAU), 5 January 1981.

3 November 1989. NAU aerial photography.
Mound. Possibly of natural origin.
D. Edwards (NAU), January 1990.

The records for sites NHER 16894, 16895 and 16896, though almost identical, are correct. Member of the public [1] confirms that in 1999 the three sites still sit on prominent, but probably natural mounds.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 April 1999.

January- February 2009. Metal detecting
2 Roman & 1 medieval pot sherd,
see list in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 13 March 2009

July 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The mounds NHER 16894, 16895 and 16896 were examined on the available aerial photographs (S1-S5) and considered to be natural features. They have therefore not been mapped, however it is worth noting that on the 1946 vertical photographs (S2) the southern-most mound (NHER 16896) appears to have been partially excavated, with possible borrow pits visible around its southern edge, perhaps being used for extraction of sands and gravels. The area is shown as uncultivated rough ground on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition map (S6), which may account for their survival.
E. Bales (NMP), 20 July 2010.