Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19488 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
This is the site of a small medieval settlement close to the road leading to Stubbs Green. Fieldwalking has recovered prehistoric flints, fragments of Iron Age, medieval and post medieval pottery and other finds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 361 975 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | LODDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
23 January 1983. Hales survey site 79.
Small concentration of medieval/Post medieval sherds by house on west side of field. Grass platform (?) between house and Stubbs House (nothing by latter).
General scatter over rest of field.
Clay/loam soil, sticky when wet, quite well weathered though rough ploughed.
4 worked flints - 1 core, 2 flakes, 1 natural (identified by J. Wymer (NAU) January 1985).
1 bowl rim, handmade, very dark grey sandy with large inclusions Early Saxon ? Reidentified as probably Iron Age by A. Gregory (NAU) 1986.
38 medieval unglazed including probable curfew body sherd.
1 probable Stamford ware (Medieval).
10 glazed red earthenware.
2 post medieval black glazed.
1 china.
2 post medieval unglazed.
6 stoneware (one 19th century).
2 18th to 19th century glazed.
1 clay pipe stem with copper alloy mouthpiece.
1 glazed pantile (compare with NHER 19486).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) September 1983.
See (S1) in file.
(S2) records this as a medieval settlement site that was close to the road leading from Stubbs Green.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 24 May 2006
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- 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)
- ROOF TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 79. Hales. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49. p 21. |
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