NHER 24486 (Monument record) - Iron Age settlement and multi-period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
28 April 1988. Fenland fieldwalking.
Conditions: good. Weathered soil, young cereal.
Context 1. MTW GE.
Odd sherds of Iron Age and medieval pottery, pot boilers and flint flakes scattered across central part of field.
Context 2 at TL 7248 9536. MTW 161.
Concentration of Iron Age pot with a few burnt pebbles and fragments of bone, possible in darker soil. On top of
large natural hollow on chalk hillside sloping down to fen. Around 45m northwest to southeast x 40m northeast to southwest.
R. Silvester (NAU), 28 April 1988.
Also Roman and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age sherds from context 1.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF15889 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW 161. FENS.
- --- SNF16119 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW GE. FENS.
- --- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)
Object Types (8)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Sep 15 2015 5:19PM