Record Details

NHER Number:24703
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Early Saxon settlement and medieval to post medieval settlement

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints, fragments of undated lava quern and pieces of Iron Age, Roman, Early Saxon, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pot. This is the site of a possible Early Saxon settlement. This was the location of medieval to post medieval settlement between High and Low Common.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 866 004
Map Sheet:TF80SE
Parish:LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC34.
Notes and plan in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 1 August 1988.

Context 1.
One bowl rim Early Saxon slightly gritty with smoothed surfaces.
Fourteen body sherds Early Saxon sandy/grittysome with organic inclusions, includes one only which is sufficiently gritty to be Iron Age.

Context 2.
Five flints.
Two Roman grey and one Roman coarse.
One pimply Ipswich.
Fifty five medieval unglazed.
Eleven glazed Grimston.
One medieval glazed.
Seven late medieval/transitional.
Six glazed red earthenware.
Three post medieval black glazed.
One post medieval green glazed.
Four lava quern.

Context 3.
One flint.
One rim large Grimston-Thetford bowl.
Twelve medieval unglazed.
Nineteen glazed Grimston, some late medieval to early post medieval.
Twenty late medieval/transitional.
Six glazed red earthenware.
One late post medieval black glazed.
Five post medieval stoneware.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes as a certain concentration of Early Saxon pot. It also describes part of the site as a L-shaped concentration of finds facing the droveway linking High and Low Common. It is the strongest of all settled areas facing the commons. There are hints of earlier activity.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • QUERN (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Map: Finder's Map..
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>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 61.

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