Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22670 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Multi-period settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints and fragments of Iron Age or Early Saxon, Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery. The concentration of Roman finds suggests this may have been an area of Roman settlement. The presence of Early Saxon or Iron Age pottery suggests this was also the location of Iron Age or Early Saxon settlement. There is also evidence for settlement here in the medieval period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 3844 9792 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1986. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 25.
Good conditions, lightly shot cereal.
Context 1 = whole field. Two strips then rewalked. These are labelled Context 2 and Context 3. See (S1) for locations.
Context 1.
Eighteen flints: twelve flakes, some with crude retouch; five scrapers, one proximal end of long retouched blade ?leaf point or sickle blade? Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU).
One upright rim and one body sherd of grogged hand made Iron Age or Early Saxon.
One body sherd organic tempered Iron age or Early Saxon.
Two body sherds sandy Iron Age or Early Saxon.
One late Roman red slipped.
One Roman flagon.
Eighteen Roman greyware.
Twenty two medieval unglazed.
Eighteen post medieval, predominantly glazed red earthenware.
George II 1/2d 1718.
Context 2.
Seven flints: five flakes, one small rounded scraper, one thick end scraper.
One scrap hand made Iron Age or Early Saxon.
Twenty three Roman greyware.
Thirty three medieval unglazed.
Four glazed red earthenware.
Two Westerwald.
Context 3.
Four Roman greyware.
Two medieval unglazed.
One unidentified.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1986.
Site 25/2.
This area has been interpreted as Roman settlement. Few finds, none dateable.
Site 25.
The possible Early Saxon sherds here may indicate this is an area of Early Saxon occupation. An Iron Age date is more likely.
Site 25/2.
This area has been interpreted as a medieval settlement. Curious slight resurgence of activity.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 1 February 2006.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SICKLE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 25. Hales. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk.. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49. |
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