Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22682 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible medieval settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints and fragments of Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery. Metal detecting recovered two Middle Saxon pins and a medieval binding strip from a casket. The concentration of medieval finds suggests this was an area of medieval settlement.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 38 98 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1986. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 39.
Weathered ploughsoil uneven, quite good conditions.
Context 1.
Three medieval unglazed including jug.
One reduced unidentified.
Seven glazed red earthenware.
One post medieval stoneware.
Context 2.
Three medieval unglazed.
One medieval glazed.
One ?late medieval/transitional.
Three post medieval stoneware.
Context 3.
Twenty four medieval unglazed (?some Thetford included).
Twenty eight medieval glazed amd late medieval/transitional.
Thirteen glazed red earthenware.
Context 4.
One flint: flake.
Four Thetford type.
Fifteen medieval unglazed (including some Thetford type?).
Three medieval glazed.
Thirteen late medieval transitional.
Five glazed red earthenware.
Three stone ware late post medieval or later.
Context 5.
Nine flints: two scrapers of which one crude on cortical flake, one core, three flakes of which one with slightly retouched edge, three blades. Identified by J.J. Wymer (NAU).
Nineteen medieval unglazed.
Seven late post medieval or later.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1986.
September 2004. Metal detecting, site extended to whole field, previously centred at [1].
Two Middle Saxon pins and binding strip.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 November 2004.
Site 39/3, 39/4 and 39/5.
This area has been interpreted as a medieval settlement. Bordering south on to road, partly opposite farm.
See (S2) for detailed discussion.
M. Dennis (NLA), 1 February 2006.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 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)
- QUERN (Undated)
- BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- CORE (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)
- PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 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. 39. Hales. |
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | 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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