Record Details

NHER Number:28041
Type of record:Monument
Name:Undated enclosure and Roman settlement

Summary

Cropmarks of half of an undated square enclosure and rectilinear features can be seen on an aerial photograph. Fieldwalking recovered pieces of Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post medieval pot. This has been interpreted as part of an early Roman settlement site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 140 327
Map Sheet:TG13SW
Parish:LITTLE BARNINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

28 June 1990. NAU air photography.
Half of a square enclosure at TG 1390 3280 (appears to project under 28033 but not visible there) and rectilinear cropmarks over field.
D. Edwards (NAU).

1991. Fieldwalking finds. Finder's Site M22.
Iron Age, Roman, medieval, post medieval sherds.
For (S1) and full details of conditions see file.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 February 1991.

(S2) describes this site as part of a comparitively early Roman settlement site where tile and samian were recovered.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 5 May 2006.

Monument Types

  • LINEAR FEATURE (Unknown date)
  • SQUARE ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
  • SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (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 - none

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG 1332 H-K.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: Finder's Map..
<S2>Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1995. The Field Archaeology of the Mannington and Wolterton Estates. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt II pp 160-184. p 165.

Related records

28042Related to: Early Roman settlement and multi-period finds (Monument)

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