NHER 23121 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

Systematic fieldwalking in 1986 and 1992 recovered a large variety of finds including Roman pottery, coins and brooch, Saxon sherds and post-medieval gunflints originating from Brandon in Suffolk. Metal-detecting in 2012 recovered a Late Iron Age coin.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL79NW
Civil Parish	NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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26 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking. Well weathered soil, west/southwest facing slope.
Odd flints, odd fragments Roman pottery, one Roman tile.
Also one Iron Age sherd.
Reference NWD AI on (S1). NCM ex [1].
R. Silvester (NAU) 26 November & 1 December 1986

Flints are Brandonian gunflint!
F. Healy (NAU)

For full details of wares, flint types, etc. see (S2).

February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline. Context 2 at grid reference [2].
Worked flint.
Roman pottery, tile coins and brooch.
Middle Saxon sherds.
See reports (S3) and (S4) and list in file for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.74).
E. Rose (NLA) 10 August 1992. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 March 2015 and 6 December 2022.

Before June 2012. Metal-detecting. [3].
1 Late Iron Age coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 April 2013.

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF16189 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NWD AI. FENS.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
<S2> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
<S3> SNF64183 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34.
<S4> SNF64182 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. The Wellington Plantation - Stoke Ferry Pipeline. A Summary of Archaeological Work undertaken on the route of the Pipeline. February-August 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 29.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (9)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
COIN (Late Iron Age - 10 BC to 42 AD)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
GUNFLINT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)