Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18339 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Hopton Manor medieval settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints and post medieval objects. Pieces of Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pot were also recorded. It has been suggested that this was the site of the medieval settlement Hopton Manor.
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Location
Full description
November 1977. Found on field surface. Context 1 at 865 992 approximately.
Twelve flint flakes.
One Saxon-Norman? sherd.
One medieval sherd.
Two post medieval sherds.
Three lead, five copper alloy post medieval objects.
A. Lawson (NAU), 20 August 1982.
1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking by A. Davison (NARG), his field LC6. Contexts 2 to 6.
For locations see (S1) in file (NHER 24669).
Worked flint.
Iron Age sherds, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval and miscellaneous sherds.
See list in file (NHER 24669).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1988.
Site stated to be that of Hopton Manor.
See (S2).
For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.
(S2) describes slight traces of Saxon activity in the area around Hopton Farm. It suggests this is the site of Hopton Manor, a hamlet of Little Cressingham. The demolition of buildings on both sides of the road, as shown on earlier maps, accounts for the large quantities of modern materials including flint cobbling from yards. Medieval pottery is concentrated on both sides of the road with some Roman and Late Saxon pottery among it.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | 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 63, 67. |
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