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Record Details

NHER Number:9082
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Possible Roman building, possible Early Saxon cemetery and multi-period finds

Summary

Fieldwalking and metaldetecting between 1960 to 2016 recovered late prehistoric worked flint, including Neolithic scrapers; undated burnt flint; prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman, Early Saxon, Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds; Roman flue tile fragments, roof tile fragments and ceramic tesserae; an undated burnt glass fragment; an Early Saxon glass bead; Roman and medieval coins; a post-medieval jetton and undated, Bronze Age, Early Saxon and Late Saxon to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include undated and unidentified lead objects and metalwoking debris; a possibly Bronze Age copper alloy unidentified object; Early Saxon brooches, copper alloy tweezers, a wrist clasp and sword pommel; a Late Saxon gold finger ring; a medieval copper alloy ring, copper alloy vessel fragment, rivet and brooch; a medieval/post-medieval belt or harness stud and post-medieval buckles, book clasps, a sword-belt hanger and cloth seal.
The quantity and type of finds recovered indicates that there may have been a Roman building in the area, and later, a possible Early Saxon cemetery.

Images

  • Drawing of a Roman patera handle from NHER 9082 © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:Not displayed
Map Sheet:TM09NW
Parish:GREAT ELLINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1960. Roman and Early Saxon pottery sherds, and Roman building material found.
Information from (S2).

1987. Early Saxon metalwork (S3, S4, S5 and S6), Roman coins, Neolithic flint, Iron Age pottery sherds, Late Saxon pottery sherds, post medieval finds.
1989. Late Saxon ring found

1991. Metal detecting. Medieval coin and medieval to post medieval metalwork, Early Saxon pottery sherds.
See full details in file.
W. Milligan (NCM) 1 May 1990.

1997. Metal-detecting and fieldwalking. [2].
Early Saxon: two sherds of pottery from different vessels.
Early Saxon: sword pommel.
Early Saxon: tweezers.
See list in file.
All three (S1).
H. Geake (NCM), 1 October 1997.

November 2012. Norfolk NMP.
Assessment of the aerial photographs for this site revealed no convincing traces of a Roman building or any other features worth mapping.
S. Horlock (NMP), 02 November 2012.

July-September 2016. Metal-detecting. [3].
12 Roman coins, 1 pottery sherd and 2 ceramic tesserae.
2 medieval coins, a copper alloy ring and brooch.
1 post-medieval coin, buckles, book clasps and a cloth seal.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 1 October 2016.

(S7) - PAS details to follow.
E. McDonald (HES), 8 October 2019.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • CREMATION (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD?)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TESSERA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD?)
  • COIN (Roman - 138 AD to 161 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 270 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 260 AD to 378 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 275 AD to 286 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 320 AD to 321 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 324 AD to 325 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 330 AD to 335 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 337 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 335 AD to 341 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 348 AD to 350 AD)
  • BEAD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • GLASS WORKING DEBRIS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SLEEVE CLASP (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SWORD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • TWEEZERS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • BROOCH (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • RING (Medieval to 16th Century - 1300 AD to 1600 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1307 AD to 1309 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • HARNESS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • STRAP FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • TOKEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1570 AD to 1570 AD)
  • BOOK FITTING (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD?)
  • BOOK FITTING (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD?)
  • CLOTH SEAL (16th Century to 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1700 AD?)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1660 AD to 1720 AD?)
  • BUCKLE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1690 AD to 1720 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 09 NW 6.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 3.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Ellingham (Great).
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Ellingham (Great).
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
<S1>Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
<S2>Article in Serial: Wilson, D. M. and Hurst, D. G. 1962. Medieval Britain in 1960. Medieval Archaeology. Vol IV (for 1961) pp 309-339. p 309.
<S3>Illustration: Penn, K.. 1987. Drawing of an Early Saxon cruciform small long brooch headplate fragment.. Film. 2:1.
<S4>Illustration: Penn, K.. 1987. Drawing of an Early saxon small long brooch headplate fragment.. Film. 2:1.
<S5>Illustration: Penn, K.. 1987. Drawing of an Early Saxon annular brooch.. Film. 2:1.
<S6>Illustration: Penn, K.. 1987. Drawing of an Early Saxon half pair wrist clasp.. Film. 2:1.
<S7>Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2016. Drawing of a Roman patera handle. Find Illustration. Film. 2:1.

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