Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17999 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Roman quern stone and multi-period pottery sherds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking from 1981 to 1983 recovered a Roman coin, pottery fragments and part of a quern, together with medieval and post medieval pottery fragments.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1814 3780 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13NE |
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| Parish: | GRESHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| SUSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1981-82. Across parish boundary. On field surface after harvesting, and in ditch. Fieldwalking.
Early medieval rim, medieval rim with lip.
Green glazed Grimston jug handle.
Late medieval/Transitional base and two sherds.
Roman grey, Samian and colour coated ware mostly 3rd/4th century. Rim and two body sherds possibly overfired?
Form 33 rim; central Gaul; 2nd century.
Mayen lava fragment.
Several erratics.
Much iron slag.
Identified by M. Darling, 9 September 1981.
W. Milligan (NCM) 9 September 1981.
1983. Further fieldwalking finds.
Roman sherds; 4th century colour coated.
Four Samian sherds; AD 120 to 200.
Base Colchester colour coated beaker 3rd century.
Grey wares 2nd to 3rd century.
Coin, As 1st or 2nd century.
Medieval sherds - two green glazed Grimston.
Two late medieval/transitional sherds.
Glazed tile fragment.
Post medieval sherds.
E. B. Green's (NCM) notes on record card include quern fragment, pudding stone (i.e. Hertfordshire pudding stone, Roman). Also, attached a rubbing or rubbings of samian stamp and a map marked by finder showing finds are from Sustead parish, and a letter.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 29 March 2000.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (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
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
Related records - none
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