NHER 10176 (Monument record) - Undated enclosure and Roman pottery finds

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Summary

Aerial photographs show the cropmarks of an undated rectangular enclosure. A possible ditch was noted in 1978 at the west end of this feature, containing fragments of Roman pottery.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM29SW
Civil Parish MORNINGTHORPE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Cropmark seen on Ordnance Survey aerial photograph and drawn out by A. Gregory (NAU) as a rectangular annexe to a line running east to west and curving to north at west end. 13 September 1978.

A. Rogerson (NAU) found, where extreme west end of this cropmark should be, a possible ditch, running northeast to southwest, 50cm deep below natural (topsoil removed); natural is yellow and sandy clays.

Fill of feature yellowish grey sandy clay with mottled reddish brown and light grey streaks. In this were amphora sherds, Roman greyware and oxydised ware.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1973. OS 73 359 212, NAU TM 2194C.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 2 2012 4:12PM

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