Record Details

NHER Number:24673
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible medieval settlement

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered pieces of medieval and Roman pot and undated lava quern. These finds may indicate an area of short-term medieval settlement.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 867 002
Map Sheet:TF80SE
Parish:LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC2.
List in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 July 1988.

Context 1.
Twenty three medieval unglazed.
Seven glazed Grimston.
Three lava quern.

Context 2.
One ?Roman greyware.
Two medieval unglazed.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 3 May 2006.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S2) describes this as possibly being the site of medieval occupation. If so this was short-lived and may have been taken back into the common after abandonment.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

  • QUERN (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Finder's Map..
<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. p 69.

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