Record Details

NHER Number:30217
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds

Summary

This was the site of a small settlement during the medieval period. Fieldwalking here during 1993-96 recovered prehistoric worked flints along with Roman, Early Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9231 1216
Map Sheet:TF91SW
Parish:FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
WENDLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1993. Fieldwalking finds.
Worked flints.
Roman, Early Saxon, medieval and post medieval sherds.
General scatter only.
See (S1).

27 May 1995. Context 15.
Re-walk of one area which had produced probable Early Saxon sherd revealed medieval and post medieval sherds only.
See (S1).

May 1996. G22, a tiny piece of G15, south part of G172 and Wendling 171 watched in poor dry conditions.
Few Roman and sprinkling of medieval sherds, few prehistoric flints and minor medieval pot concentration in W171.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 27 September 1996.

NGR corrected from original TF 9230 1235.
M. Horlock (NLA) 7 April 2003.

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 (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G15. AJGR.
<S1>Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.

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