NHER 2836 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

November 1965. Stray find.
Surface find at [1]:
Neolithic small, well-polished flint axehead, butt damaged, sides facetted. See drawing (S1).
Information from record card (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
As noted in (S4) this object was subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1977.124.26).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2018.

Extended to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 14 June 2023.

February 2016. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey of part of large proposed development area (Field 2).
Finds recovered included:
1 prehistoric flint flake.
1 Mesolithic flake.
1 Early Neolithic retouched flint flake and 1 flake.
1 Neolithic flake.
1 ?Bronze Age flint flake.
1 ?Roman pottery sherd.
1 medieval/post-medieval pottery sherd.
4 post-medieval pottery sherds, 8 pantiles, 3 ?pantiles, 2 ?bricks, 2 ?drain pipes and 5 clay tobacco pipe fragments.
23 post-medieval/modern pottery sherds, 4 pieces of bottle glass and 1 leg from porcelain doll.
Various post-medieval or later iron objects including 2 heel irons, 1 nail, 1 bolt, 1 ploughshare and 4 unidentified fittings.
1 undatable butchered animal bone (sawn, suggesting probably late medieval to modern).
Information from draft report. Final version awaited. See NHER 67120 for details of subsequent phases of archaeological mitigation.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 June 2023.