Record Details

NHER Number:20608
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi-period finds from garden of Post Office House

Summary

Prehistoric worked flints and fragments of medieval and post-medieval pottery, found in the garden of Post Office House from 1978 onwards. In 2005 a Late Upper Palaeolithic double-ended scraper was found.

Images

  • Upper paleolithic scraper 1 from NHER 20608  © Norfolk County Council
  • Paleolithic srapera from NHER 20608  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TF 89 13
Map Sheet:TF81SE
Parish:FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1978 onwards. Field walking.
Ordnance Survey plot Great Fransham 117 (Post Office House and garden owner [1], and garden to west [2]). Finds in gardening.
Also two joining 19th century sherds found in heart of clay lump wall at first floor level when knocking window through by [1]. Few medieval sherds, two flints, one sherd glazed red earthenware.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 5 September 1984.

11 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.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
  • 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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