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Record Details

NHER Number:	21025
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Multi period finds including material probably dumped following demolition of Middle Harling Church

Summary

Fieldwalking has recovered a scatter of finds including mortar, mortared flint, floor tiles, human bone, limestone and brick. This suggests the area was used to dump debris after the demolition of Middle Harling Church in the 18th century. The floor tiles are an extraordinary collection of unusual tiles not normally found in Norfolk churches. A Mesolithic flint core and a flint blade, a piece of Roman tile, fragments of Middle Saxon pottery and a medieval buckle and thimble have also been found.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TL 97 85
Map Sheet:	TL98NE
Parish:	HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Late 1983 on two different dates by [1]. Area of arable field.
Scatter of finds suggesting that this is site of dumping of Middle Harling Church in 18th century. Area is around 100m x about 25m. Finds not collected - much mortar, mortared flint, some limestone, mortared, many human bones. Finds collected - sample of brick. Floor tiles, one base and one sherd of pimply Ipswich.
A. Rogerson (NAU), November 1985.

See file for report on floor tiles (S1). The collection is most extraordinary for a small parish church, which in Norfolk usually yields little other than a few plain Flemish tiles.
M. Dennis (NLA), 10 February 2006.

1983. Fieldwalking. Middle Harling.
1 Mesolithic-type two-platform flint blade core and 1 flint blade similar to it.
1 prehistoric flint flake used as hollow scraper.
Information from [2].
Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU) November 1984.
W. F. Milligan (NCM), 29 November 1984. Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 November 2014.

1986. Further surface finds by [1].
Twenty six fragments of medieval glazed floor tiles, of which six exhibit relief decoration (not seen by P. Drury); Roman tile with combing.
NCM.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 27 July 1987

1987. Found with metal detector.
Context 3 at [3].
13th century bronze buckle (finder's No 8).
Context 4 at [4].
Medieval conical bronze thimble (finder's No 7).
Information from [5].
S. Margeson (NCM), 24 April 1987.

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
HOLLOW SCRAPER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
HUMAN REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
HUMAN REMAINS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	Map: Finder's Map..
---	Unpublished Document: Davison, A.. Note on Middle Harling.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Unpublished Document: Drury, P.J.. Middle Harling, Site of Church (Norfolk).
<S2>	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.