NHER 16896 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds and natural mound

December 1980. On top of slight rise. Found on surface of ploughed field. Finder's site 165a.
Concentration of worked flints: one core, one chunk, ten flakes. Indeterminate date.
One medieval unglazed body sherd.
Flints identified by F. Healy (NAU), 5 January 1981.
A. Gregory (NAU), 2 January 1981.

February 1982.
As above.
Thetford type rim sherd.
W. Milligan (NCM), 2 March 1982 (to NAU 1984).

November 1989. NAU Air Photography.
Mound, possibly of natural origin.
D. A. Edwards (NAU), 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 (NCM), 9 April 1999.

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.