Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8745 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Iron Age/Roman fort at High Banks |
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Summary
Part of a rectangular earthwork here has been interpreted as an Iron Age or Roman fort. The site is also visible on aerial photographs. Fragments of Roman pottery have been found in the area since 1933.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9254 0394 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SW |
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| Parish: | OVINGTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
On this site survives a rectangular earthwork, partly destroyed, which perhaps indicates the presence of an Iron Age fort.
1933. Potboilers and animal bones found.
1957-9. Roman sherds, tile, metalwork found.
1961. Roman sherds found.
1974. Ditch exposed in section; Roman sherds.
1983. Roman sherds found.
1985. Roman sherds found.
See full details, (S1) in file.
13 May 1994. NLA aerial photography.
Extant half of rectangular Iron Age/Roman? Fort clearly visible.
No corresponding cropmark is detected for levelled half of monument.
S. Massey (NLA) 6 February 2001.
22 July 1996. NLA aerial photography.
Earthwork remains of enclosure still visible. In addition to this cropmarks can be seen where the earthwork no longer survives.
H. Clare (NLA) 4 January 2002.
January-May 1999. Metal-detecting.
The Roman pottery sherds previously recorded under this number are now recorded under NHER 15050.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 June 2018.
Monument Types
- FORT? (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLOOR TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPADE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: St Joseph AP CC052; Unit TF9203 A-B. |
| --- | Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 4. |
| --- | Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF478. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF 92 04 D-F. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF 9204G - K. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. TF 9204L. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 90 SW 3; TF 90 SW 28. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 5. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Ovington. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Wymer, J.. 1983. Site notes. |
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