Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2801 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age hearth and medieval and post medieval brick |
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Summary
A possible Bronze Age hearth is visible as a patch of black earth and pot boilers. Fragments of medieval and post medieval brick have also been found on the site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9570 1518 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91NE |
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| Parish: | GRESSENHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pot boiler site reported to NCM by [1] as one of his Bronze Age hearths.
2 February 1979.
Ordnance Survey reports that this is still clearly visible as two conjoining patches of black earth with burnt flint.
1979.
[2] found some bricks here which he claimed were the remains of the 'old Gressenhall hall'.
[3] said they were largely 19th century, 'with a couple of small pieces of medieval brick amoungst them'.
E. Rose (NAU).
Part of large scatter, see NHER 30563.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HEARTH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 91 NE 21. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Gressenhall. |
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