NHER 50502 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric, post-medieval to modern and undatable finds

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Summary

A systematic fieldwalking and metal-detecting survey of part of this field in 2007 recovered a small number of prehistoric worked flints; an undatable pottery sherd; post-medieval ceramic building material fragments; a post-medieval coin; a post-medieval commemorative token and a range of post-medieval to modern and undatable metal objects. These metal finds included post-medieval thimbles, buckle and ?military badge; a modern bullet and a range of undatable copper alloy and lead fragments. Subsequent metal-detecting in 2008 recovered a post-medieval lead weight and a lead cloth seal, along with various metal objects of late post-medieval to modern date.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG21SE
Civil Parish	GREAT AND LITTLE PLUMSTEAD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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February 2007. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Field survey on proposed line of Norwich Northern Distributor Road (Field 64).
Finds recovered included:
11 prehistoric worked flints.
1 post-medieval coin, 2 ceramic building material fragments, 1 commemorative token, 1 ?military badge, 1 buckle, 3 thimbles and 1 fitting.
1 modern bullet.
1 undatable pottery sherd, 2 fittings, 1 decorated strip fragment, 1 rod, 1 mount, 1 copper alloy sheet fragment, 1 iron strip, 1 lead nail, 1 lead rivet, 1 lead strip, 1 lead ball, 1 lead sheet fragment and 1 lead waste fragment.
See reports (S1) and (S2) for further details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 17 September 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 June 2019.

January-February 2008. Metal-detecting.
Area extended [1].
Lead trade weight of James I or II conspicuous amongst large body of 18th century and later metal objects.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 11 March 2008.

Before 12 March 2008. Metal-detecting.
Post-medieval lead cloth seal.
See description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 April 2008.

Now extended to whole field [2].
P. Watkins (HES), 16 June 2019.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF70174 Unpublished Contractor Report: Trimble, G. 2008. Norwich Northern Distributor Route. Fieldwalking and metal detector survey - Interim statement. NAU Archaeology. 1213.
<S2> SNF72219 Unpublished Contractor Report: Morgan, S. and Hoggett, R. 2008. Norwich Northern Distributor Route: Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey. NAU Archaeology. 1369. p 62.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (22)

FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
MOUNT (Unknown date)
NAIL (Unknown date)
POT (Unknown date)
RIVET (Unknown date)
ROD (Unknown date)
SHEET (Unknown date)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
WASTE (Unknown date)
BADGE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUILDING MATERIAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CLOTH SEAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BULLET (Early 20th Century to 21st Century - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 16 2019 2:38PM