Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17808 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
This is the site of a small Roman settlement, one of a number of Roman settlements strung out along a ridge. Fieldwalking and metal detecting have recovered prehistoric flints and pottery, Iron Age terrets, Roman pottery, coins, brooches and other metal finds including an escutcheon from a bucket, an Early Saxon brooch, a Late Saxon ring, and medieval and post medieval finds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 37 97 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | LODDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1981. Fieldwalking by Hales Survey, site 29.
Flints.
Iron Age, Roman, medieval sherds.
Tile.
Metalwork etc.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NAU) December 1981 and March 1982.
1986.
Iron Age sherds reidentified as Neolithic, see file.
November to December 1990. Found with metal detecting.
4 Roman coins, see list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 4 January 1991.
December 1990 to January 1991. Found with metal detecting.
Roman coins, brooch and medieval metalwork.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 21 January 1991
1993. Found with metal detecting.
Iron Age terret (S2), Roman metalwork.
See details in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 5 November 1993.
1997. Metal detecting finds.
Iron Age terret fragment, bridle bit fragment, button shaped fastener.
3 2nd/4th century coins.
See list in file.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM) 21 November 1997.
Roman escutheon.
Early Saxon annular brooch fragment.
Late Saxon finger ring.
Identified by H. Geake (A&E) 26 November 1997.
See polaroids and lists in file.
W. Milligan (NCM) 23 September 1997.
(S1) records this as Site 29, the site of a Roman settlement, one of a number of such settlements strung out along the ridge.
See (S1) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 22 May 2006
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- NAIL (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BUTTON (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- HARNESS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BUCKET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STUD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- FINGER RING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TOKEN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 29. Hales. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Davison, A.. 1990. The Evolution of Settlement in Three Parishes in South-East Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. Vol 49. p 15. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Davies, J. A. 1993. Drawing of an Iron Age terret ring.. Paper. 1:1. |
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