Record Details

NHER Number:25566
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds

Summary

This is the site of a Roman settlement. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints and pottery dating from the Roman to the post medieval periods.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9067 1187
Map Sheet:TF91SW
Parish:FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1989. Gridded Field walking finds.
Contexts 1 to 18.
Roman, medieval, post medieval sherds.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) September 1989.

May 1990. Field walking finds.
Context 19. Area east of council houses not previously walked.
Context 20. Area of context 6.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) March 1992.

24 May 2000. Visit to building site, footings for new house already part filled with concrete. Context 21. On spoil heap.
Roman and medieval pottery sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 March 2007.

Monument Types

  • SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Unknown date)
  • QUERN (Unknown date)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---*Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L96. AJGR.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.

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