Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20763 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds |
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Summary
This is the site of a Roman settlement, which continues under NHER 20754. Roman coins, a Roman brooch, a Roman steelyard weight, fragments of Roman pottery and Roman tiles have been found on the site during field walking and metal detecting. Prehistoric flint flakes, and fragments of pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods have also been found.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 91 13 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91SW |
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| Parish: | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1983. Ordnance Survey field Great Fransham 287. Field walking, good conditions but dry soil.
Concentration in northwest quadrant.
Very large quantity Roman and medieval sherds.
Roman Nar Valley and medieval coarse not easily distinguishable. Also Roman Calcite ware, amphorae, mortaria, and ?tile.
Medieval including Grimston and imported.
Post medieval sherds.
Prehistoric worked flint.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 23 October 1984
November 1995. Metal detecting and field walking. 4 areas.
Roman, ?Iron Age and medieval sherds.
3 Roman coins.
2 Roman brooches.
Roman steelyard weight.
Flint flakes.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 8 January 1996.
Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- STEELYARD WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G287. AJGR. |
| --- | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile. |
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