Record Details

NHER Number:12262
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Roman building

Summary

Prehistoric worked flints including flakes and a scraper and one piece of medieval pot were found. Later fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints, pieces of Roman pottery and tile, fragments of medieval pot and a medieval lava quern. This is the site of a possible Roman building.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 862 990
Map Sheet:TL89NE
Parish:LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Context 5 at 863 989.
Four flint flakes, one scraper, one medieval? sherd, found in proximity to round barrow (NHER 5053) on surface of ploughed field.
N. Adams (NAU), February 1977.

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Finder's field LC 4C = 4 contexts.
Roman sherds and tile.
St Neots and medieval wares.
Lava quern, worked flints.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 July 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes as a concetration of small amounts of grey and coarse wares that at best could be described as the site of a rather lowly dwelling.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. pp 60-61.

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