Record Details
NHER Number: | 23916 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Site of Bronze Age ring ditch and Roman settlement and Roman marching camp |
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Summary
This is the site of a ring ditch, probably dating to the Bronze Age, and a Roman marching camp, which also extends into site NHER 20130, which are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. This is also the site of a Roman settlement. Prehistoric flints and fragments of pottery dating from the late prehistoric to the post medieval periods have been found by fieldwalking.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 718 043 |
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Map Sheet: | TF70SW |
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Parish: | BARTON BENDISH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
3 December 1986 and 2 February 1987.
Sites BB 334 to 341 and 449 to 50, contexts 2 to 11.
Excludes sites NHER 20128 and NHER 20129 not rewalked.
Fieldwalking good conditions, winter cereal.
Worked flints.
Prehistoric sherds.
Roman sherds including oxidised, colourcoated, shelly.
Late Saxon sherds - Thetford.
Medieval sherds including Late medieval/Trans and Grimston.
Medieval roof tile; copper alloy cauldron rim-handle.
Ipswich ware Middle Saxon.
Post medieval sherds.
See full list in file and details and plan in file.
Identified A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 12 August 1987.
1 July 1976, photos seen NAU 1996.
South end of field; cropmark (Context 12) of rectangular enclosure, continuing into site NHER 20130 to south.
Interpreted as Roman marching camp.
Also Context 13; ring ditch (20m contour).
Copy of photograph and plot in file.
D. Voisey (NAU), D. Edwards (NLA) and E. Rose (NLA) 13 November 1996.
Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SITE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SITE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TEMPORARY CAMP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 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
- SHINE
- Higher Level Stewardship
Sources and further reading
--- | Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1964. OS 66.125.453. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 334. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 335. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 336. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 337. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 338. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 339. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 340. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 341. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 449. BB. |
--- | *Fieldwork: Barton Bendish Survey. 450. BB. |
--- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-125-454. |
--- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-125-454. |
--- | Aerial Photograph: OS 76-125-. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
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