Record Details

NHER Number:24708
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible prehistoric burnt mound and medieval to post medieval settlement

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered pieces of medieval and post medieval pot, undated lava quern and whetstone and located a concentration of prehistoric burnt flint. The flint may be a prehistoric burnt mound. This was the location of medieval to post medieval settlement between High and Low Common.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 866 003
Map Sheet:TF80SE
Parish:LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC40.
Pot boiler site.
Notes in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 1 August 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes this as part of the site as a L-shaped concentration of finds facing the droveway linking High and Low Common. It is the strongest of all settled areas facing the commons. There are hints of earlier activity.
See (s1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • QUERN (Undated)
  • WHETSTONE (Undated)
  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Map: Finder's Map..
---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 69.

Related records

24703Related to: Possible Early Saxon settlement and medieval to post medieval settlement (Monument)
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