Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29501 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Undated enclosures and medieval and post medieval pottery find, Oldyards Meadow |
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Summary
Survey fieldwork on permanent pasture in 1993 noted broad linear earthwork ridges forming an irregular platform area. A further enclosure can be seen as a cropmark on a 1946 aerial photograph. Medieval pottery and brick fragments and pieces of post-medieval pottery were recovered from adjacent land in 1996. The most likely explanation for these features is that they are a group of enclosures on the common edge which probably had buildings on them in the medieval period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 29 24 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG22SE |
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| Parish: | SLOLEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February 1993. Visit in NLA earthworks survey fieldwork.
Broad linear ridges up to 1.0m high forming an irregular but joined
platform area.
1946 RAF air photograph (S1) shows near rectangular enclosure in arable land to north abutting these features.
B. Cushion (NLA), 12 February 1993.
October 1996. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000. Site extended to west and south.
Pottery on adjacent arable land noted below.
North of earthworks:
One base and one body sherd of medieval unglazed, one medieval glazed, two late medieval/Transitional, one post medieval stoneware, one straw-marked medieval brick and one fragment of lava quern.
Southeast of earthworks:
One medieval glazed, three medieval unglazed, one straw-marked medieval brick fragment.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA).
See report (S2) for further details and copy of plan (S3). The results of this survey are also summarised in (S4).
B. Cushion (NLA), October 1996.
February 2003.
Earthworks in good pasture. Grazed by cattle in the summer months. A few shallow tracks of 4 by 4 vehicles crossing the site. This due to extraction of wood and replanting in adjacent area.
H. Paterson (A&E), February 2003.
Management Statement (S5) signed 16 April 2003.
Copy in office file.
H. Paterson (A&E), 7 May 2003.
Before 9 March 2012. Metal-detecting.
Groat of Henry VIII.
A. Rogerson (HES), 8 June 2012.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
- HOUSE PLATFORM (Unknown date)
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Undated)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Aerial Photograph: RAF. RAF 106G 1634 4076; OS 72.111.052. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Report: Cushion, B. 1996. Sloley SMR 29501. Earthwork Survey Report. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Cushion, B. 1996. Plan of earthworks at Sloley SMR 29501. Film. 1:1000. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1997. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1996. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt IV pp 547-564. p 559. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Document: H. Paterson (A&E), MPP. Management Statement. |
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