Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18239 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of possible Roman enclosures |
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Summary
This is the site of a series of enclosures, both sub-circular and sub-rectangular, and trackways, visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Finds from this area, see NHER 20182, suggest that the site may date from the Roman period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 29 17 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21NE |
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| Parish: | BELAUGH, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
30 June 1980. NAU air photography.
Positive cropmarks.
1 ring ditch. 1 square feature.
S. Norton (NAU), 25 June 1982.
Not a ring ditch; a subrectangular enclosure.
E. Rose, (NAU) 20 July 1982.
January 1984. Over surface of field containing cropmarks. Found on surface of ploughed field while metal detecting.
24 Roman coarse sherds.
4 sherds Thetford-type ware.
5 sherds medieval.
NCM.
A. Gregory, (NAU) 23 March 1984.
17 July 1986. Further NAU air photography.
Track and enclosures
D. A. Edwards (NAU), July 1986.
28 June 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of sub-circular enclosure with entrance still visible, along with the sub-rectangular/square enclosure to the west.
A third enclosure is also visible to the north. It is extremely regular and has internal sub-dividing ditches. Finds over this area (NHER 20182) may indicate it is Roman in date.
S. Massey (NLA), 9 October 2001.
Monument Types
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- SITE (Unknown date)
- SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- TRACKWAY (Unknown date)
- SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TG2917 A-D,H-W. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 2917AM-AP. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TG 2917AB - AL. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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