Norfolk Heritage Explorer

Location

Full description

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC28.
Notes and plan in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 1 August 1988.

Context 1.
Twelve Roman tile fragments.
Forty seven Roman coarse.
Seventeen Roman grey.
Four Roman shelly.
Two samian.
Two 4th century Oxon mortaria, one white slipped, one red.
Two Nene Valley fine colour coat.
One Nene Valley coarse colour coat.
One Oxon red slipped rouletted necked bowl.
Five oxidised.
Two medieval unglazed.

Context 2.
Five flints.
Two Roman grey.
Four Roman coarse.
One Roman oxidised.
One Roman red slipped.
Three glazed Grimston.
One glazed red earthenware.
One reduced, burnt, unidentified.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S2) 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

• SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• POT (Undated)
• LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• ROOF TILE (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

Related records

Find out more...

• Parish Summary: Little Cressingham (Parish Summary)