Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23089 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
This was the site of a common edge settlement during the medieval period, and a house is first mentioned on the site in 1361. Fieldwalking between 1986 and 1993 recovered prehistoric flints and pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods. Metal-detecting in 2019 recovered a Neolithic/Bronze Age retouched flake and scraper; Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds; Roman and medieval coins, and post-medieval jettons; aswell as medieval to post-medieval metal objects. The metal finds include medieval horseshoes; a medieval/post-medieval copper alloy rivet and knife shoulder bolster; and post-medieval buckles.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 890 117 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | NECTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
3 April 1986. Fieldwalked when Fransham project being done adjacent, very rapidly, no concentrations.
Roman greywares and Samian base but no sign of source of Roman material in adjacent field Little Fransham 19 (23087).
Medieval sherds including Grimston.
Post medieval sherds.
Flints.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 20 November 1986.
1993. Fieldwalking finds. Fieldwalking after documentary research.
Medieval concentration at TF 8898 1193 on parish boundary.
1 Iron Age sherd isolated find.
Roman, post medieval sherds and quern also.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), November 1993.
January-February 2019. Metal-detecting. [1].
Neolithic/Bronze Age retouched flake and scraper.
1 Iron Age pottery sherd.
1 Roman coin, and 2 pottery sherds.
2 medieval coins, 5 pottery sherds, and iron horseshoes.
Medieval/post-medieval copper alloy rivet and a knife shoulder bolster.
2 post-medieval jettons, 1 pottery sherd and buckles.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 April 2019.
This site is recorded as Med 11A in (S2), and is first recorded in 1361 as a messuage with 10 acres.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA), 15 December 2005.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Undated)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- QUERN (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED 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)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 353 AD to 364 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1185 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1205 AD to 1230 AD)
- HORSESHOE (Medieval - 1270 AD to 1500 AD)
- RIVET (Medieval to 17th Century - 1300 AD to 1700 AD)
- KNIFE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1350 AD to 1600 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1650 AD)
- POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
- JETTON (16th Century to 17th Century - 1586 AD to 1635 AD)
- JETTON (17th Century - 1607 AD to 1632 AD)
- BUCKLE (17th Century - 1620 AD to 1680 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. N.454. AJGR. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile. |
| <S2> | Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay. |
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