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Record Details

NHER Number:1008
Type of record:Monument
Name:Scole House/Long meadow, part of the Roman settlement

Summary

The former Scole House site contains part of the Roman settlement of Scole, and lies just east of the site of the largest excavations in this area, at NHER 1007. Excavations took place on this site in 1936, and 1981 prior to the construction of a housing estate. This recovered a number of coins, pottery sherds, copper alloy and iron objects, as well as the footings for houses with floors, hearths and metal working debris, all thought to date to the Roman period. Pottery sherds and coins dating to the Iron Age period were also recovered.

During the construction of the housing estate workers on the site also made a number of finds. This includes a hoard of coins containing silver coins dating to the Iron Age, and well as copper alloy coins of the Roman Republican and early Empire. In addition, four human skeletons though to date to the third century were also recovered. As a result of these finds, excavation continued periodically into 1984, during which an iron working furnace and stokehole dating to the second century were discovered, associated with heavily vitrified clay and tap slag. For further details on the Roman settlement at Scole, please see NHER 1007.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 148 786
Map Sheet:TM17NW
Parish:SCOLE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Scole House/ Long Meadow Site.

1936. Excavation of Roman buildings (part of posting station presumed site).
Information from (S1) and (S2)

1951, 1957. Burnt areas found.
1963. Roman road excavated.
1973. Roman sherds found.
1978. Roman sherds found.
1981-2. Iron Age and Roman coins (hoard) found during construction of housing estate. See (S3)

1981 to 1984. Excavation.
Salvage excavation of Roman material, Iron Age coin hoard, Early Saxon pottery. Including very exciting Iron Age iron smelting furnace.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2020.77).

1984. Ritual skull burial found.
1985. Found with metal detector. Roman ring.

1985-1986. Metal-detecting.
Exact circumstances and location unknown but believed to be from this site:
1 Roman hinged Colchester derivative brooch. See drawing (S10).

See excavation notes and press cuttings (S4 to S9) in secondary file.
E. Rose, 30 January 1991.

1999. Stray find. Found in garden. [1]
Almost complete Roman pot.
See list in secondary file.
Compiled by K. Hinds (NLA), 17 January 2000.

See file for list of Roman sherds found at same time and in same trench as beaker in 1999, and reported by same finder.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 December 2001.

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FURNACE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • HEARTH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • MANSIO (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PIT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BOX (Undated)
  • LOOMWEIGHT (Undated)
  • PLUMB BOB (Undated)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
  • STRAP FITTING (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN HOARD (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CRUCIBLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • GEMSTONE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • LATCHLIFTER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • LINCH PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • MILLSTONE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NEEDLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PLANT REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SEAL BOX (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPOON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STUD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SURGICAL INSTRUMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TESSERA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TOILET ARTICLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • WINDOW GLASS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MUSKET BALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • NAIL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Correspondence: Various. 1978-1982. Letters.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Scole [4].
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Slide: Various. Slide.
---Photograph: CKT6-8,CKX1-4.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Evening News. 1982. Digger driver finds Roman hoard. 11 November.
---Newspaper Article: Diss Express. 1982. Coin hoard found on building site. 12 November.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
---Illustration: [Moyse's Hall Museum Staff]. 1986. Drawings of metal objects from various locations including Diss, Thetford and Scole.
<S1>Article in Serial: Gale, C. H and Moore, I. E. 1936. Roman Remains in Scole. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. Vol XXII Pt 3 pp 263-286. pp 267-269.
<S1>Article in Serial: Gale, C. H. 1937. The Romans in Scole. East Anglian Magazine. May, pp 306-307. pp 267-269.
<S2>Article in Serial: Gale, C. H. 1937. Roman Remains at Scole House, Scole. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. Vol XXIII Pt 1 pp 24-30.
<S3>Article in Monograph: Burnett, A. 1986. Scole, Norfolk, Treasure Trove. Coin Hoards from Roman Britain VI. British Museum Occasional Paper No 58. Burnett, A. (ed.). pp 7-22.
<S4>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988. Romans to be buried again, in churchyard. 6 January.
<S5>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1982. Scole building site yields big Roman hoard.
<S6>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1982-1993. [Articles on a the finding and selling of the coin hoard found in 1982].
<S7>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1982. [Articles on the excavation of a skeleton found in 1982].
<S8>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1981. Scole skeleton still a mystery. 24 September.
<S9>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1983. Coins are treasure trove. 27 July.

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