Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5210 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman building |
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Summary
A Roman brick floor, fragments of a pewter vessel, three inhumation burials and Roman pottery were excavated here in 1958 and 1960. This is the site of a Roman building. With the inhumation burials the fragmentary remains of a child's skeleton were recorded. The date of these burials is unclear. They may be Iron Age, Roman or Saxon. Fieldwalking as part of the Fenland Survey also recovered Roman pottery, tile, oyster shells and bone.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 701 917 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79SW |
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| Parish: | FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1958. Excavation.
Roman ?building, pewter vessels, flue tile, sherds
1960. Excavation.
Roman floor and inhumations. Possible Early Saxon, Late Saxon sherds
1962.
Millstone found.
Pre 1974.
Roman brooches and spoon.
1985. Fenland fieldwalking.
Roman building material.
1991.
Roman sherds found
See list, (S1), and (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 September 1993.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).
Monument Types
- INHUMATION (Early Iron Age to Early Saxon - 800 BC to 650 AD)
- BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HEARTH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TESSELLATED FLOOR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BOWL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MILLSTONE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPINDLE WHORL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SPOON (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 69. FENS. |
| --- | Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 3. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 SE 21. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Serial: 1960. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1960. No 7. p 3. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Feltwell [4]. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Feltwell. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Late Saxon. Feltwell. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Mottram, A. S.. 1960. Feltwell: Oulsham Lane. |
| <S3> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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