NHER 12262 (Monument record) - Possible Roman building

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Summary

Prehistoric worked flints including flakes and a scraper and one piece of medieval pot were found. Later fieldwalking recovered prehistoric worked flints, pieces of Roman pottery and tile, fragments of medieval pot and a medieval lava quern. This is the site of a possible Roman building.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL89NE
Civil Parish LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Context 5 at 863 989.
Four flint flakes, one scraper, one medieval? sherd, found in proximity to round barrow (NHER 5053) on surface of ploughed field.
N. Adams (NAU), February 1977.

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Finder's field LC 4C = 4 contexts.
Roman sherds and tile.
St Neots and medieval wares.
Lava quern, worked flints.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 July 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes as a concetration of small amounts of grey and coarse wares that at best could be described as the site of a rather lowly dwelling.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. pp 60-61.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 18 2023 7:46AM

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