Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20608 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Multi-period finds from garden of Post Office House |
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Summary
Between 1978 and 2021 a number of finds were recovered during gardening at this location, including a Late Upper Palaeolithic double-ended flint scraper, prehistoric flint flakes and sherds of Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 89 13 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1978 onwards. Stray Find.
Ordnance Survey plot Great Fransham 117 (Post Office House and garden owner [1], and garden to west [2]). Finds in gardening.
Few medieval sherds, two flints, one sherd glazed red earthenware.
Also two joining 19th century sherds found in heart of clay lump wall at first floor level when knocking window through by [1].
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 5 September 1984.
October 2005. Stray Find.
Casual find in garden:
1 Upper Palaeolithic double-ended flint scraper. See drawings (S2) and (S3).
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see description in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 March 2007.
March 2021. Stray Find.
1 Roman pottery pottery sherd.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 March 2023.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- 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: Fransham Survey. G117. AJGR. |
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Robins, P. 2005. Drawing of an Upper Palaeolithic double-ended flint scraper from Fransham. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gibbons, J. 2011. Drawing of an Upper Palaeolithic double-ended flint scraper from Fransham. Film. 1:1. |
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