NHER 29143 (Monument record) - Prehistoric flint finds

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Summary

In 1992 a fieldwalking and metal-detecting survey along the route of a pipeline recovered worked flint and pot boilers. Aerial photographs also show the cropmarks of what seems to be a very small ring ditch; the latter is now recorded as part of NHER 63619.

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Map sheet TL79SE
Civil Parish CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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February-March 1992. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Route of Wellington Plantation to Stoke Ferry Pipeline.
Worked flint.
Pot boilers.
See reports (S1) and (S2) 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.


On northern edge of scatter, incredibly tiny ring ditch; far too small for a conventional barrow; shows as cropmark on RAF air photography. Ancient? But note to west in road from what must be a charcoal burning oven or something similar, of the same diameter.
K.Sussams (SAU) 2 November 1995 and E.Rose (NLA) 23 January 1997

January 2020. Breckland National Mapping Programme.
The undated ring ditch described above is now recorded as part of NHER 63619.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20th January 2020.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TL/TL7692/B.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992. Summary Report of Fieldwork at Denton-Stoke Ferry Pipeline (Stage 2) February - March 1992. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 34.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1992.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.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Dec 6 2022 7:53AM

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