Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9976 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Undated earthworks and Roman/medieval inhumations, Chapel Meadow Hill |
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Summary
Investigation of this site in the late 19th century and the early 20th century recovered a variety of objects including human remains, pottery and metalwork of medieval or Roman date, along with Roman amphorae and medieval pottery sherds. It seems likely that a medieval chapel existed here. A survey in 1997 recorded various earthwork features and the site is now preserved under good pasture.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 1928 9585 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM19NE |
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| Parish: | THARSTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1897-98. Finds of skeletons and skulls, pottery (S2) and metalwork called Roman but probably the site of a chapel.
1923. Roman amphorae found (S3 and S4).
1947. Medieval sherds found.
December 1997. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000.
See report (S5) and photographs in file for further details. This site is amongst those included in (S6) and the survey is also noted in (S7).
E. Rose (NLA) December 1997
October 2004. Visit.
Field under good pasture, topped twice yearly or grazed by cattle/sheep. Did not make close inspection at request of owner due to highland cattle on site.
H. Paterson (A&E) 17 December 2004.
A contemporary monument on Chapel Hill commemorates the 1897 discoveries. This was listed Grade II in 2006 and is now recorded separately as NHER 65544.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2022.
Monument Types
- ENCLOSURE (Undated)
- FORTIFICATION (Undated)
- HEARTH (Undated)
- PARISH BOUNDARY (Undated)
- PIT (Undated)
- TRACKWAY (Undated)
- INHUMATION (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- CEMETERY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- INHUMATION (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 19 NE 4 [3]; TM 19 NE 5. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Tharston. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Tharston [2]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Berney Ficklin, P. 1906. Skulls found at Tasburgh and a Sepulchral Urn found at Penthorpe. Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany. Second Series Pt 1 pp 79-82. pp 79-81. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Unknown. 1997. Drawings of a Roman pottery base.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Unknown. 1997. Drawings of a Roman amphorae neck and rim.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Unknown. 1997. Drawings of a Roman amphorae base.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S5> | Unpublished Report: Cushion, B. 1997. Tharston SMR9976 & Tasburgh SMF9977. Earthwork Survey Report. |
| <S6> | Monograph: Cushion, B. and Davison, A. 2003. Earthworks of Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 104. p 126. |
| <S7> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1998. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1997. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt I pp 193-210. p 206. |
Related records
| 65544 | Parent of: 19th-century monument on Chapel Hill (Structure) |
| 9977 | Related to: Medieval moated enclosure and building remains (Monument) |
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