NHER 58365 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds

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Summary

In 2001 prehistoric worked flints, potentially prehistoric burnt flints and a number of post-medieval objects were recovered during the excavation of a cable trench. Metal-detecting in 2013 recovered a sherd of Roman pottery and an unusual Late Saxon stirrup strap mount.

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Map sheet	TG33SW
Civil Parish	PASTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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June-July 2001. Watching Brief.
Observation of trench dug for new electricity cable running between Bacton and North Walsham (Field 36).
No archaeologically significant features or deposits observed.
Unstratified finds recovered included:
15 ?prehistoric burnt flints.
3 prehistoric worked flints (types not specified).
1 post-medieval pottery sherd and 1 brick/tile fragment.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.442).
P. Watkins (HES), 5 May 2015. Amended 27 May 2019.

February 2013. Metal-detecting. [1].
1 Roman pottery sherd.
Late Saxon unusual stirrup strap mount (S3).
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 May 2013.

August 2015. Metal-detecting. Discovery Tours, Field 5.
Finds recorded by HES on the PAS database [2]:
DT082015 - PAS details to follow.
Information from PAS import.
Finds recorded by Discovery Tours, I. Riddler or A. Marsden:
Details to follow.
Also see (S4) for details of low grade material recovered from this field and Discovery Tours fields 4 and 6.
A. Beckham (HES), 30 September 2015.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
<S1> SNF49501 Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. and Underdown, S. 2001. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the North Walsham to Bacton Cable Trench. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 612.
<S2> SNF82150 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2002. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 162-177. p 170.
<S3> SNF89358 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2013. Drawing of an incomplete unusual Late Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class C (1997, 482-4).. Film. 2:1.
<S4> SNF93641 Unpublished Document: Discovery Tours. 2015. Discovery Tours Low Grade Material Record Sheet. Fields 4, 5 and 6.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (6)

BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC? to 42 AD?)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 140 AD to 160 AD)
STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
BUILDING MATERIAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

May 27 2019 6:54PM