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Record Details

NHER Number:13009
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Roman and medieval settlements

Summary

Fieldwalking and metal detecting have recovered Roman coins, pottery, building material and metal finds including a silver finger ring. This suggests that this is the site of a Roman settlement. The cropmark of a possible building visible on aerial photographs has been tentatively identified as Roman. Another cropmark represents the former course of a road, and a concentration of medieval finds associated with the cropmark suggest that this was the site of an early medieval settlement that expanded during the medieval period. The settlement had been abandoned by the post medieval period. Other finds from the site include prehistoric flints, Bronze Age or Iron Age pottery, a Late Saxon strap fitting and other medieval and post medieval finds.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 36 96
Map Sheet:TM39NE
Parish:LODDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

THE CROPMARKS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE NOW RECORDED AS PART OF NHER 49639.

1976.
Amorphous mass of many superimposed enclosures under modern field boundary.
Several buildings and yards of different periods?
Also old course of road (see Notes), bending south of modern line. Lane is soilmark between cropmarks of ditches; others are cropmarks.
Located by E. Rose (NLA), 6 January 1978.

Finds made by NARG fieldwalking in 1980 to 1981.
Context 1 and Context 2 [4].
Prehistoric flints, medieval wares including Early medieval, post medieval sherds; building material.
Roman tile, pottery, Iron Age? Pottery or Bronze Age.
See list in file.

February 1990. [1].
Silver finger ring found by metal detecting.
Henig type 8 with angled shoulders. Flat rectangular bezel; scratched but not obviously inscribed. Angled tapering shoulders with 5 grooves some with transverse notching. Thick D-shaped hoop. 3rd-4th century.
A. Rogerson (NAU), March 1990.

1990. Found in fieldwalking and with metal detecting in area of Context 2 as above, west of pit [2] [4].
Roman lead steelyard weight with iron loop.
Roman coin (see coin form in file).
Copper alloy tag with no obvious means of attachment (dress fitting), hook broken, spike projecting opposite circular field, with 4 repousse bosses. Probably 16th century, not Late Saxon.
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle and plate with 5 rivets.
Cast animal foot (clawed, with openwork between claws) Roman? From vessel? To be photographed.
Rim Roman greyware jar. Rim probably of medieval unglazed jug.
Pottery identified by A. Rogerson (NLA), metalwork identified by S. Margeson (NCM).
See sketch plans, map and further details in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 9 May 1990.

1990. Further metal detecting finds.
Roman and medieval coins, metalwork, pottery.
See file.
W.F. Milligan (NCM), 22 May 1990

September 1991.
Lovely 11th century late Saxon copper alloy strap-union, with Romanesque affinities. Superb relief cat-like animal head in centre and openwork tendrils below the head, with triangular looped opening at each end. Open end has moulded boss at each corner.
Identified by S.M. Margeson (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 November 1991

This is recorded as Sites 17 and 18 in (S1).
Fieldwalking has recovered a concentration of Roman material from site 17, and interprets the cropmark of a possible building as Roman. Site 18 is an isolated early medieval site that is associated with a cropmark that represents the former course of Transport Lane. The site expanded during the medieval period, but had been abandoned by the early post medieval period.
See (S1) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 19 May 2006.

October 2018. Metal-detecting. Iceni Tours. [5].
PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 March 2021.

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Unknown date)
  • DITCH (Unknown date)
  • ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • YARD (Unknown date)
  • BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROAD (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WATER PIPE (Early 20th Century to 21st Century - 1901 AD to 2100 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • TILE (Undated)
  • VESSEL (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STAMP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STEELYARD WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • BELT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FLOOR TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • NAIL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1976. NHER TM 3696A-B (NLA 31/AFN19-20) 08-JUL-1976.
---Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Photograph: 1991. LBL 16-18, Late Saxon/Medieval object..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
---Photograph: FHN 28-29, FNF 21-24.
<S1>Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49.

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