NHER 5261 (Monument record) - Roman building and multi-period finds

1960 to 1961. Ploughed up.
Roman building remains. Earthworks noted on site. Roman sherds and metalwork, and worked flint.

Pre 1971. Casual find.
Roman brooch, (S1).

22 June 1975. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
D. Voisey (NLA), 14 March 1995.

Pre 1977. Stray Find.
Barbed and tanged arrowhead found by F. Curtis (TL 6952 9113; c. 4). Find recorded in Curtis catalogue and noted in (S3). Formerly recorded as NHER 14644.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 October 2013.

Pre 1981. Stray Finds.
An examination of various privately-held collections by F. Healy identified a number of additional flint objects that are recorded as having been found in this field (Upper Hill Close; old O.S field 284; Curtis field 84 (N). Flints in the Secker collection included:
1 ?Mesolithic small, heavily corticated blade core (S4).
1 Neolithic oblique arrowhead.
2 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads (1 Green Low type, 1 Conygar type).
1 scraper.

Finds in the Orange Collection (ex Secker) included:
2 Neolithic leaf arrowheads.
1 awl.
3 scrapers.
1 blade.
1 serrated implement.
1 retouched flake.
Finds in the Younge Collection included:
2 Neolithic oblique arrowheads.
1 Neolithic saddle quern.
1 Neolithic stone axe.
1 hammerstone.
1 slate implement of 'sponge finger' type but pointed.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 October 2013.

1985. Fenland fieldwalking.
Iron Age and prehistoric pottery, flints and pot boilers, Roman sherds.
See details in file
E. Rose (NAU), 16 May 1990.

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

December 1998. Finds identification.
Neolithic flint sickle fragment. Medial section, snapped in antiquity. Patchy iron staining on one face. Bifacial shallow transverse flaking, retouch on lateral edges. (S5)
E. Whitcombe (NLA), 22 January 2010.