NHER 17163 (Monument record) - Multi-period finds, undated mounds and suggested World War Two firing range

June 1980. Fieldwalking. About 640m (700 yards) northeast of Church Farm.
Early Saxon and Iron Age? sherds.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM).
W. Milligan (NCM), 30 March 1981.

Two low mounds on prominent spur here - but not obvious barrows.
A. Lawson (NAU).

March 1979 (reported to NAU in 1982). Finds from north part site. Finder's site 20.
Twenty prehistoric (Iron Age?) sherds.
One Late Saxon rim sherd.
Twenty nine medieval sherds including greenglazed.
Two post medieval stoneware sherds.
Scatter of Neolithic flint including two cores.
Twenty five flakes.
Two scrapers.
Two retouched pieces.
One piece iron slag.
One fragment Mayen lava millstone.
Two fragments iron, undated.
Flint identified by A. Lawson (NAU).
S. Margeson (NCM), May 1980.

July 1983. Fieldwalking again of above site.
Further flint: one two platformed blade core fragment, two keeled cores (one of them with blade scars), two blades, sixteen flakes, one scraper, four possibly retouched flakes.
Two flint and sand gritted sherds, one of them indeterminate, the other with fingertip rustication and probably Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Two copper alloy ammunition fragments, cartridge case dated 1944 with Ministry of Defence cypher, and fragment of some abominable mortar fragment. Area believed to have been a shooting range in World War Two.
Pottery and flint identified by F. Healy (NAU).
Ammunition identified by E. Rose (NAU).
F. Healy (NAU), 27 July 1983.

28 June 1985.
Further sherds including some with thumbnail decoration in West Harling style.
Identified by A. Gregory.
Information from [1].
W. Milligan (NCM), 3 July 1985.

June 2002.
No sign of mounds now on crest of rise which is planted with young trees.
Information from D. Gurney (NLA).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 June 2002.

June 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The assessment of the aerial photographs for this area as part of the NMP project revealed no convincing traces of these earthwork mounds. The area is covered in what would appear to be natural undulations. Consultation of the 1940s aerial photograph, for example (S1), also revealed no sign of the suggested firing range at this site. See NHER 34084 and 53629 for nearby military training sites that could be related to the finds of ammunition.
S. Horlock (NMP), 08 June 2010.