Record Details
| NHER Number: | 24669 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman settlement |
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Summary
Prehistoric pot boilers, Roman pottery and tiles, and medieval pottery, found during fieldwalking. This site is part of a large linear Roman settlement.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 850 998 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89NE |
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| Parish: | GREAT CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field GC13.
Intensive Roman site, sherds, tiles etc.
Two pot boiler sites.
Context 2 at 8505 9997.
Context 3 at 8514 9964.
Notes and plan in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 20 July 1988.
(S1) describes as part of a linear Roman settlement that extends across parts of four fields. Pot and building material suggests this was a prosperous rural settlement. A well-marked bank and ditch extends from north to south through part of the site.
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. p 60. |
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