Record Details
| NHER Number: | 12137 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds scatter |
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Summary
Metal detecting on the site has recovered large quantities of multi-period finds including a Roman silver coin, a copper alloy rattle, Roman pottery, large pieces of carved imported building stone and medieval metal finds. Fieldwalking in 2000 recovered Iron Age to modern pottery.A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age double ringed hengiform monument, three Bronze Age ring ditches, a possible Roman temple site and undated rectilinear enclosures can be seen as cropmarks on aerial photographs in the area of this finds scatter. The site has been an important focus of activity from the Neolithic to the Roman periods and continued to be used during the medieval and post medieval periods.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 45 93 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM49SE |
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| Parish: | ALDEBY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Cropmarks referred to below are now recorded under separate numbers. The probable Roman temple is NHER 45036, the hengiform ring ditches are NHER 45032 and the enclosure complex is NHER 45018.
1977-80.
Cropmarks of several ring ditches, enclosures and possible Roman temple.
1983. Metal detecting.
Roman, Early Saxon and Iron Age sherds, building stone and Roman coin found.
1986. Metal detecting.
Bronze rattle found.
1987. Metal detecting.
Medieval metalwork.
Worked flints.
1988. Metal detecting
Medieval token.
See full details and plots of cropmarks in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 12 November 1990.
14 October 2000. Fieldwalking.
Fieldwalking by University of East Anglia Continuing Education students, information from [1].
See excerpts from [1]'s essay with maps and tables in file.
A. Rogerson, (NLA) 9 December 2000.
2 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of three ring ditches, Roman temple site and rectilinear enclosures all still visible. Large example double ringed hengiform monument.
S. Massey (NLA), 23 July 2001.
Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Unknown date)
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- HENGIFORM MONUMENT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TEMPLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (Undated)
- POT (Undated)
- WORKED OBJECT (Undated)
- BLADE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TM 4593C-AA, AQ-AY, ABC, ABE, ABG-ABH. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TM 4593ABJ - ABM. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 49 SE 13 [2]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Article in Monograph: Edwards, D.. 1978. The Air Photographs Collection of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit: Third Report. East Anglian Archaeology. No 8 pp 87-105. |
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