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Multi-periodSite Name: Broome Heath EnclosureCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.774 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Norfolk Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: TM34289115
Latitude: 52.467982N Longitude: 1.447729E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Norfolk
A semi circular banked earthwork enclosure of Neolithic date. A curvilinear earthwork bank defines a roughly C-shaped curvilinear enclosure. Internally the enclosure measures approximately 150m from north to south by 100m west to east. The eastern side of the enclosure is open and not defined by a bank. Excavations have demonstrated that this side of the enclosure had probably been left open. The excavations, which were carried out between 1966 and 1971, revealed evidence of a Neolithic settlement within the enclosure. A 50m section of the northern part of the enclosure is cut by gardens and no longer survives as a significant earthwork. A narrow outer bank is present as an earthwork at the southern end of the enclosure and was also identified by the excavations.
Various pits, post-holes and hearths were identified within and beyond the enclosure and a fossil soil survived beneath the bank. Early Neolithic pottery was recovered from all of these context and it was notable that the sherds recovered from the surface of the fossil soil, beneath the bank, were unweathered. An Early Neolithic date for the construction and use of this monument was also supported by the small number of radiocarbon dates and the character of the large flint assemblage recovered, The excavation recovered 22,252 worked flints including 13 leaf-shaped arrowheads, 2 transverse arrowheads and 1 barbed and tanged arrowhead also 30 polished axehead fragments including 2 complete examples.
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