Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17976 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Iron Age and Roman settlement |
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Summary
This is the site of an Iron Age and Roman settlement, one of a number of Roman settlements strung out along a ridge. Fieldwalking has recovered Iron Age and Roman pottery, Roman flue tile and medieval and post medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 3621 9709 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | LODDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1981 to 1982. Fieldwalking by Hales Hall Survey (retains).
Much Roman pottery and tile.
Medieval to post medieval pottery, finds.
2 Contexts.
1. Grid reference as above.
2. North of removed hedge centred 3620 9715.
See list in file.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) 15 March 1982.
(S1) records this as Site 40, the site of an Iron Age and Roman settlement on a spur on the west side of the valley joining the Loddon Beck. The site is close to another Roman settlement, NHER 17979, and is one of a number of Roman settlements strung out along the ridge.
See (S1) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 22 May 2006.
1997. Stray Find.
Roman pottery sherds recovered in south-east corner of site, in vicinity of [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 12 July 2016.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- LATCHLIFTER (Undated)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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: Hales Survey. 40. Hales. |
| --- | *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 40a. 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. |
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