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Record Details

NHER Number:9628
Type of record:Monument
Name:Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon finds and Roman or Saxon burials

Summary

In 1862-63 a number of objects were recovered from this area during the construction of the roadway. These included large stones, burnt earth, pottery sherds, amphora fragments, copper alloy shield fragments, iron spearheads, Roman coins and a number of human burials thought to date to the Roman or Early Saxon period.
The pottery sherds were identified as Late Saxon or early medieval, and the iron spearhead as probably dating to the Iron Age. An iron shield boss was also recovered, and thought to belong with the spearheads in a burial context. Parts of a broken bone pipe instrument were also recovered. These finds may be linked to the Roman settlement evidence recovered nearby during excavation at The Oaks (NHER 34516).

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2539 0880
Map Sheet:TG20NE
Parish:THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1862-3 in grounds of Rev W. Frost 'The Oaks' east side of Harvey Lane in making a roadway.
Large stones, burnt earth, calcined flints, pot sherds including broken amphora, iron spearheads, bronze fragments from edge of shield, bronze lamp-stand, penannular bronze brooch, 2nd brass coin of Nero - iron bit (prick spur). Probably Roman and Anglo-Saxon interments mixed.
An iron spearhead found in 1873 is probably Iron Age. None of the pottery appears to be Roman but that which has
been preserved is Late Saxon or Norman (including one Late Saxon Ipswich Ware sherd).
Compiled by W. F. Milligan (NCM).

(S1) - part of musical instrument. [1]
(S2), (S3), (S4) - amphora, (S5), (S6), (S7), (S8) (adds inaccurately east of 'Telegraph Lane'), (S9), OS map Roman Britain 1928, OS map Dark Age Britain 1935.
Compiled by R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Iron spearhead probably Iron Age. [2]
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

1863. North of of 'The Oaks' east side of Harvey Lane.
Iron shield boss found - probably single inhumation burial (two iron spearheads from same site [3]).
(S2), (S3), (S4), (S5), (S6).
Compiled by R. R. Clarke (NCM).

1862/3. In the grounds of The Oaks on east side of Harvey Lane.
Late Saxon Thetford ware fragments and one complete jar - grey ware.
One iron spearhead.
Part of broken bone pipe.

Pottery [4], spearhead [5] ?Iron Age (S2) called Roman, (S3) called Saxon - iron spearhead, (S5); (S10) (for pipe).
Compiled by R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Late Saxon Thetford Ware asked in Hurst, JG 1957 Saxo-Norman Pottery in East Anglia, Part II, Proc Cambs Antiq Soc Vol L, pp 49-50.
Eight vessel fragments drawn - some listed above.
Reduction of drawing in file (S11).
Compiled by B. Green (NCM), 17 January 1990.
Compiled by A. Rogerson (NAU), 2 April 2000.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • CEMETERY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • INHUMATION (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SPEAR (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • LAMP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SHIELD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPEAR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SPUR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SHIELD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SHIELD (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SPEAR (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • SPUR (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NE 3 [2]; TG 20 NE 5.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Article in Serial: Hurst, J. G. 1957. Saxo-Norman pottery in East Anglia. Part II Thetford Ware. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol L (for 1956) pp 29-60. pp 49-50.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Thorpe (St Andrew).
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Thorpe St Andrew.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Thorpe St Andrew.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Late Saxon. Thorpe St Andrew.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Middle Saxon. Thorpe St Andrew.
<S1>Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum.
<S2>Article in Serial: 1864. Appendix. Extracts of the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VI pp 379-390. p 385.
<S3>Article in Serial: 1879. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee and the General Meetings. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VIII pp 326-341. p 329.
<S4>Article in Serial: 1872. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VII pp 349-374. p 349.
<S5>Article in Serial: Fox, G. E. 1889. Roman Norfolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XLVI pp 331-367. p 365.
<S6>Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. pp 320-321.
<S7>Publication: Rye, W. 1916. Roman Camps and Remains in Norfolk. p 39.
<S8>Publication: Rye, W. 1920. Roman Camps and Remains in Norfolk. p 47.
<S9>Monograph: Supple. 1917. History of Thorpe next Norwich.. p 13.
<S11>Illustration: [Unknown]. [unknown]. Drawings of Late Saxon Thetford Ware vessels from Thorpe St Andrew.

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