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Record Details

NHER Number:	2960
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Medieval tofts

Summary

A series of earthworks of enclosures and field boundaries. Finds of medieval pottery in the area suggest that these are medieval tofts and associated fields.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TG 039 005
Map Sheet:	TG00SW
Parish:	DEOPHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

31 July 1970. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Soilmarks. Tofts etc.
See (S1).
D. Voisey (NLA), 31 October 1995.

1970. While digging drainage ditches.
One green qlazed sherd, late 13th/14th century.
One ?pipkin handle ?16th century and possibly another, also 17th century stoneware sherd.
Also Roman grey ware rim sherd.
Informant had no idea if sherds found together or separately.
Crofts show on (S2).
E. B. Green (NCM).

1988.
A further late medieval/transitional jug handle ploughed up.
I. D. W. Milligan (NCM).
S. Margeson (NCM), 27 May 1988.

November 1998. Earthwork survey.
See (S3) describing series of ditched enclosures including tofts which are subdued and truncated but are interpreted as in part medieval tofts. Area extended to east, western area is under scrub and rough grassland which may hide some features.
Pottery I. D. A. Rogerson (NLA).
Medieval unglazed: one jar rim, one bowl rim, one base, five body sherds (one large).
Late medieval/transitional: one base and two body sherds.
See also (S4).
B. Cushion (NLA), 11 November 1998.

Under good grass cover, minimal poaching, grazed by horse/sheep.
H. Paterson (A&E), 18 March 1999.

Monument Types

CAUSEWAY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
DRAINAGE DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ENCLOSURE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
TOFT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
HOUSE PLATFORM (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

SHINE

Sources and further reading

---	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 - Roman. Deopham.
---	Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Deopham.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
---	Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Deopham.
---	Unpublished Report: Cushion, B. 1998. Deopham, SMR 2960. Earthwork Survey Report.
<S1>	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1970. OS 70-282-111.
<S2>	Aerial Photograph: RAF. RAF AP 5130.
<S4>	Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1999. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 369-387. p 371.