Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20613 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Late Saxon and medieval settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
This is the site of a Late Saxon settlement, which continued to develop during the medieval period. Prehistoric flints, pottery dating from the Late Saxon to the post medieval periods and medieval tiles have been found during field walking.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8926 1339 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1978 and 1981. Field Ordnance Survey Great Fransham 132. Field walking, not of equal consistancy.
Finds of Roman pottery.
Thetford type ware, medieval wares including St Neots, early medieval, and late medieval/early post medieval, also medieval tile; worked flints; post medieval sherds including stoneware and glazed red earthenwares; etc.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 5 September 1984
This site is recorded as LS6, Med 22 and Med 23 in (S2). There is no certain documentary evidence relating to the medieval settlement recorded as Med 22, but a messuage is recorded on the site of Med 23 in about 1400. From about 1560 this site was amalgated with Med 23A, see NHER 14166, which is the site of a 16th century house.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 15 December 2005
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G132. AJGR. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile. |
| <S2> | Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay. |
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