NHER 6250 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds from Muckleburgh Hill

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Summary

Pieces of Iron Age, Roman and medieval pot and a Roman coin were found. Pits have been recorded here but cannot be seen on aerial photographs.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG14SW
Civil Parish KELLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Before 1929. Top of hill.
Two sherds ?Iron Age pottery.
R.R. Clarke.

1951. Muckleburgh Hill.
2nd brass of Hostilianus 250/1.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

1929. Summit of Muckleburgh Hill, 200' OD.
Coarse gritty grey-brown and red Roman sherds probably 2nd century.
'In modern pit'.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Three Roman sherds.
J.E. Sainty previously found sherds ('in excavating') which K.G. Wright called 1st century.
T. Clough (NCM).

For pits marked as antiquities by Ordnance Survey, see record NHER 6251.
E. Rose (NAU), 29 October 1985.

1994. Found on exposed face at northeast side of hill.
Several flint gritted Iron Age sherds.
2nd/3rd century Roman sherds.
Two developed rim medieval sherds.
W. Milligan (NCM), 14 April 1994.

October 2003. Norfolk NMP.
No definite traces of pits relating to this site were mapped during the NMP. Pits were mapped within the general vicinity (NHER 38360, 38365 and 38369) although these all appeared to be military in origin.
S. Massey (NMP), 19 November 2003.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Kelling.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Kelling [2].
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 14 SW 3.
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 7 2016 12:38PM

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