October 1998 to November 1998

Forest-walk 20
Forestry Compartment Elveden 2082

Suffolk SMR - ELV Misc.
Parish - Elveden. Date - 1/10/98.
Survey Area - 5.28 ha. Sample Fraction - 3.33 %
Centre on TL 7941 8174.
Soil - North side: Santon/Worlington, deep partly podsol upland brown earth. South side: Worlington deep upland brown earth.
Relief - Flat upland.
Water - Little Ouse 5 km; Horseshoe Pit 3.5 km.
Height OD - 50 metres.

Transects were spaced at 30 metres distance apart.

3 sherds of undated pottery.
10 flint flakes.
1 burnt flint.

A previously unrecorded, low lying and poorly defined bank was detected within the surveyed area, stretching from TL 7939 8175 to TL 7956 8181. No post medieval or modern artefacts were found to the north of the bank, but there were scatters of broken tile, brick, and a few modern potsherds to the south of it; indicating that this earthwork represents a field-boundary, used during the Late Post-Medieval and possibly earlier.

Lithic Sample Size = 10. Sample Area = 1760 M²
Low Lithic Density for Forest-walk 20 = 0.57 per are². Burnt flint density = 0.06 per are²

Forest-walk 21.
Forestry Comp Did'ton Highash 2012

Norfolk SMR 34052.
Parish - Foulden. Date - 18/10/98.
Survey Area - 4.74 ha. Sample Fraction - 3.33 %
Centre on TL 7863 9939.
Soil - NE side: Methwold/Newmarket, calcareous slope brown earths and rendzina. SE side: Methwold / Worlington, partly calcareous slope brown earth.
Relief - Slight west facing slope.
Water - Stream 1.5 km to NW.
Height OD 15 to 20 metres.

Transects were spaced at 30 metres distance apart.

4 sherds of Medieval pottery.
1 flint scraper.
1 unfinished or broken ?flint arrowhead.
13 retouched flint flakes.
41 unmodified flint flakes.
2 flint waste cores.
1 burnt flint.

The sherds of medieval pottery suggests that this area was cultivated during the Middle Ages. A background scatter of post-medieval or modern tile and brick sherds lays across the surveyed area; and a pit - probably from marl extraction, is located at TL 7853 9952. This indicates that this area of the forest was also cultivated in recent centuries.

Lithic Sample Size = 58. Sample Area = 1580 M²
Medium Lithic Density for Forest-walk 21 = 3.8 per are². Burnt flint density = 0.06 per are²

Forest-walk 22
Forestry Comp Did'ton/Highash 2022

Norfolk SMR - 34164
Parish - Foulden and Didlington (straddling parish boundary). Date - 25/10/98

Survey Area - 3.66 ha. Sample Fraction - 3 %
Centre on TL 7941 9835
Soil - Methwold/Worlington: partly calcareous slope brown earths.
Relief - slight south-west facing slope.
Water - River Wissey 2.7 km; stream to NW 2.8 km.
Height OD - c.30 metres.

Transects were spaced at 30 metres distance apart.

1 sherd of Medieval pottery.
6 retouched flint flakes.
21 flint flakes.
3 small waste cores.
1 burnt flint.

No post-medieval or modern finds.

Lithic Sample Size = 30 Sample Area = 1098 M²
Medium Lithic Density for Forest-walk 22 = 2.73 per are² Burnt flint density = 0.09 per are²

Forest-walk 23
Forestry Compartment Hockwold 6096

Norfolk SMR - 34167
Parish - Hockwold-cum-wilton. Date - 1/11/98.
Survey Area - 2.88 ha. Sample Fraction - 2.75 %
Centre on TL 7516 8907.
Soil - Freckenham/Red Lodge - gravely upland.
Relief - uneven upland.
Water - Little Ouse River 2.1 km.
Height OD - 20 to 25 metres.

Part of the compartment has been designated as site 32593, and has not been restocked. Within this conservation area lays a disturbed mound.

1 flint 'button' scraper (probably Early Bronze Age).
5 flint flakes.
1 burnt flint.

1 brick sherd noted.

lithic Sample Size = 6. Sample Area = 792 M²
Low Lithic Density for Forest-walk 23 = 0.76 per are². Burnt flint density = 0. 13 per are²