Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19812 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable post medieval pottery works and Saxon and medieval pottery finds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking from 1983 to 1984 recovered post medieval pottery fragments and kiln furniture, indicating that this was probably a 16th to 17th century pottery production site. Pieces of medieval pottery were also found. Further fieldwalking in 1985 produced more of the same material, together with prehistoric worked flints, a piece of Middle Saxon and a piece of Late Saxon pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 006 106 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01SW |
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| Parish: | YAXHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1983 to 1984 and before. Fieldwalking. Ordnance Survey Fields 361 and 362.
Probable pottery production site for green and red-glazed earthenweare, 16th to 17th century. Medieval sherds also found. See list in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 8 August 1984.
1985. Further fieldwalking.
More of same; also worked flints,sandy Ipswich ware rim, and ?Thetford-type sherd. List and plots (S1) in file.
See (s2) in the Illustration Library.
A. Rogerson (NAU), July 1985.
Monument Types
- POTTERY WORKS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | X-ray: X ray. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Photograph: CNQ15-16. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Rogerson, A. 1985. Plan for the detailed fieldwalking undertaken on 19/4/1985 in Yaxham.. Film. Unknown. |
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