NHER 10066 (Monument record) - Former medieval field system and multi-period objects

Strip fields, marked on 6in Ordnance Survey.

29 February 1948.
Only two easterly ones survived.
D. H. Smith.

14 February 1960.
Gone by now.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

2 October 1979.
All one huge field now.
E. Rose (NAU).

Area of former strip fields = Context 2.

21 October 1984. Area extended by Wacton Project Fieldwalking, general scatter = Context 1. No concentrations.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flints - eighteen flakes, two cores used as striking tools - one struck on several faces.
Medieval sherds - one 13th/14th century black outside, light brown inside. Two stoneware; one sherd German stoneware; one odd pitch lined sherd.
Post medieval sherds - seven orange fabric, brown glazed sherds.
Coin of William III.
See file under NHER 20949-50.
Identifications by A.Gregory (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) from notes by [1], 27 November 1984.

Also one Roman coarse sherds, one late medieval/transitional.
Finds held by NCM.
A. Rogerson (NAU) 2 December 1988.

May 1989. From centre of Context 2 according to finder (wrongly called Great Moulton).
Aesica brooch.
Photograph by Suffolk Archaeological Unit from whom information came (J. Newman).
Roman pottery also found according to finder, but not seen Suffolk Archaeological Unit or Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
Details of brooch in file.
D. Gurney (NAU), 8 June 1989.

September 1995. Metal detector find probably from this site though grid ref given as [2].
Bronze cuboid object, hollow cast, open on one face; corroded; thickened flange around the oped side with small foot projection off the corners. Rough as cast inside. Approximately 16mm sides.
Unknown function and date. Sketch in file.
Identified by J. Plouviez (SAU).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 January 1996.

Does this not sound like a Roman 'votive stand' in the dodecahedron tradition?
E. Rose (NLA), 12 January 1996.

March/April 2005. Metal detecting.
Roman brooch.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 17 May 2005.

January 2026. HER Enhancement: Forestry Commission Project K.
The two strip field boundaries discussed above, and two additional potential strip field boundaries are visible as low earthworks on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2021 (S1). The features are also visible as soilmarks on aerial photographs(s2) and recorded on the Tithe map (S3) and the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6" map (S4).
J. Powell (Norfolk County Council Environment Service), 15 January 2026