Record Details

NHER Number:14708
Type of record:Monument
Name:Multi period pottery and metal finds

Summary

Fieldwalking in 1979 recovered prehistoric pot boilers, a medieval pottery fragment, and post medieval pottery debris from muckspreading. Metal detecting in 1999 recovered a Roman coin, two medieval buckles and two medieval jettons.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 13 22
Map Sheet:TG12SW
Parish:BOOTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

31 March 1979. [1]
Fieldwalking by [2] and 15 helpers, watching brief.
Pot boilers, medieval sherd, post medieval debris.
Pot boilers; 1 green glazed sherd of grey fabric (Grimston?); much tile but probably all 17th-18th century building debris spread by manuring. No concentrations.
North corner of area towards suggested cropmark of Roman road slightly darker soil but no obvious road line.
E. Rose (NAU) 6 April 1979.

First half 1999. Metal detecting.
Site extended to whole field centre [3].
1 Roman coin.
2 medieval buckles.
2 medieval jettons.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 January 2000.

Monument Types

  • ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • JETTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • JETTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TILE (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.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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