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juamei Jun 16, 2004 14:29:28
Replying to Kozmik_Ken

> Had to do it before I flit from Norfolk! Access seems to have improved a little since you were there, as
> there's a parking place n' a new looking gate onto the field now. There's still a little to be seen of the
> ditches at the eastern end.... but a fair bit of imagination has to be used too. Not that different to
> visiting Arminghall Henge as far as visible remains go.

But but SC is just a hillfort, whereas A is a henge!!
(I may be slightly biased :)

> Had a bit of an attempt at fieldwalking for pottery.... but didn't find ow't.

Found this on the ramparts of Thetford Castle.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/28663

I've never found any pottery but I don't know what to look for so...

K Kozmik_Ken
Kozmik_Ken Jun 16, 2004 15:11:54
Replying to juamei

>But but SC is just a hillfort, whereas A is a henge!!
>(I may be slightly biased :)

My Mrs, in one of her reality check moments, would call them both 'slight bumps in a field'... we know different of course ;)

>I've never found any pottery but I don't know what to look for so...

I was looking for anything that wasn't the normal flint scatter that you get round here... seeing as the field on which SC stands has been ploughed so much, I thought there may be a good chance of finding something. Iron Age pottery is said to be incredibly common.

I'm for ever umming n' arring over bits of flint... but never found anything that I could confidently stand up n' say is an artefact.