Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22693 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible medieval settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints and fragments of Roman, medieval and post medieval pottery. A piece of medieval roof tile was also found. The concentration of medieval finds suggests this was an area of medieval settlement perhaps associated with filled in clay extraction pits noticed in the field.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 3974 9948 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM39NE |
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| Parish: | HECKINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
14 April 1986. Hales Survey, Heckingham site 54.
Good conditions, well weathered young cereal.
Two scrapers and four flakes.
Four Roman greyware and three possibles.
Eleven medieval unglazed.
One coarse sandy sherd probably early medieval.
Six medieval glazed.
One late medieval/transitional.
One medieval roof tile.
Seven post medieval sherds.
See (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 June 1986.
Site 54.
This area has been interpreted as a medieval settlement. Medieval sherds and one late medieval/transitional sherd found between shallow pits, ploughed over, and road. Possibly associated with working of the pits for clay.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 1 February 2006.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- CLAY PIT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Hales Survey. 54. Hales. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Hales Survey. Hales Survey fieldwalking notes. |
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