Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8747 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman settlement and huge Roman object scatter |
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Summary
A huge number of Roman objects have been recovered from this field over the period 1969-2000. Large numbers of coins and pottery sherds have been found along with numerous brooches, bracelets, tiles, pins, toilet and cosmetic implements. This dense scatter of artefacts clearly demonstrate that some sort of Roman settlement was located here.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 91 03 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SW |
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| Parish: | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1969/70. Surface of ploughed field.
Roman sherds. None ever found before this date to knowledge of ploughman; ploughing no deeper now than in past. Held by NCM.
See Norwich Castle Museum Recrd Card (S1), listed in (S2) and noted on (S3).
NHER 8747/context 1-157.
February - April 1980. See Notes. Surface collection in 10m squares.
One Neolithic sherd (S4), Mildenhall style(?), two sherds flint gritted prehistoric, flint hammerstone, Roman pottery and building material and quern fragments, Roman 4th century coins (found with metal detector in a non systematic search).
One sherd Middle Saxon, and medieval and post medieval sherds. Mainly Roman.
Seen by A. K. Gregory (NAU) 19 June 1980.
1994/5. Metal detecting and field collections from whole field.
12.778kg of Roman sherds predominantly greyware.
276g of Roman shelly, one amphora (242g).
One nice body sherd Roman oxidised with red barbotine dots.
Two Nene Valley colour coated sherds.
One East Anglian and two Nene Valley mortarium sherds and several pieces of millstone grit querns.
338g miscellaneous Roman oxidised including ?red slipped.
Two tiny scraps Samian.
Seventeen lead pot mends including three with Roman pot in situ. (These and one other to be photographed).
Many Roman tiles mostly tegulae.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 2 February 1996.
1994/5. Metal detector finds generally located.
Eighty-one Roman coins.
See list in file. Identified by J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 February 1996.
Pre-1996. Metal detector finds.
Roman finds including brooches, finger rings, bracelets, tweezers and a linch pin (S5).
D. Gurney (NLA) 27 February 1996.
Pre-1996. Metal detector finds.
Ninty-two more Roman coins. See list in file. Identified by J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 28 March 1996.
1994/1995. Metal detector finds. Further group of material found.
Roman metal objects, pottery, tile, vessel glass.
Medieval buckle.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 12 March 1996.
1996 and before. Metal detector finds.
Another eighty Roman coins.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 26 September 1996.
1996 and before. Metal detecting. Further coin finds.
Fifteen Roman and two medieval.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 8 November 1996.
Earlier 1997. Metal detector finds.
Roman, medieval, post medieval coins.
Roman bracelet, pin, weight.
1997/1998. Metal detector finds.
Roman brooches.
?Iron Age brooch, votive stand and other metal finds.
Roman sherds, tile fragments, quern.
Post medieval pottery sherd.
See lists, press cutting (S6) and plots (S7) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 17 February 1999.
Before 30 May 2000. Metal detecting and surface collection.
One Roman coin.
One hundred and eighty-seven Roman sherds.
Roofing and fire tiles.
One medieval sherd.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 19 June 2000.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- HAMMERSTONE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BOW BROOCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BOW BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COSMETIC MORTAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- LINCH PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- LOCKING MECHANISM (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MINIATURE OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PALETTE (COSMETIC) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PESTLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TWEEZERS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (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 - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Healy, F. 1984. Recent Finds of Neolithic Bowl Pottery in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt I pp 65-82. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Saham Toney. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Saham Toney. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1970. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1970. No 17. p 12. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 90 SW 13. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Healy, F.. 1980. Drawing of a Neolithic sherd.. Film. 1:1. |
| <S5> | Illustration: White, S.. 1996. Drawing of a Roman linch pin.. Film. 2:1. |
| <S6> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1980. Top prize for field project. 3 October. |
| <S7> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
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