Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2820 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Saxon pottery from Bittering Street |
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Summary
A fragment of Late Saxon pottery was found in 1966.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9617 1706 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91NE |
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| Parish: | GRESSENHALL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1966.
1966 Casual Find.
A 9th/10th century rim of Thetford Ware was found.
See (S1). Material not seen since.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)
15 August 1980. Field Observation.
A development site was visited, located immediately adjacent to the findspot, on the south but the opposite side of the hedge. Foundation trenches and spoilheaps produced no evidence or material. Indications were that there had been no disturbance of subsoil.
A. Rogerson (NAU) 18 August 1980.
29 February 1984. Field Observation.
The site was visited while a house was under construction on the site of the findspot.
Nothing was visible except many brick fragments in dumped soil, but some land was covered by building materials.
J. J. Wymer (NAU)
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Late Saxon. Gressenhall. |
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records - none
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