Record Details

NHER Number:17812
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of medieval settlement

Summary

This was the site of a common edge settlement during the medieval period. Fieldwalking has recovered medieval and post medieval pottery and other finds, including slag and fragments of clay pipes.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 3756 9634
Map Sheet:TM39NE
Parish:HALES, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

September 1981. Found in fieldwalking by Hales Survey, site 32.
78 medieval unglazed.
29 late medieval to early post medieval glazed.
42 post medieval glazed.
1 Staffs slipware.
5 post medieval stoneware.
1 basalt ware.
1 clay pipe stem.
1 hone with subsquare section.
1 slag.
See (S1) in file.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) December 1981.

(S2) records this as Site 32.
See (S2) for more details about medieval common edge settlement in Hales.
S. Spooner (NLA) 25 January 2006

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • WHETSTONE (Undated)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 32. Hales.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes.
<S2>Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk.. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49.

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