NHER 16854 (Monument record) - Medieval to post medieval settlement and multi-period finds

1980. Finds from NARG fieldwalking.
44 medieval coarse ware sherds.
25 medieval/early post medieval glazed.
17 post medieval sherds.
9 stoneware late medieval/Post medieval.
Site plan in file.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) November 1980.
E. Rose (NAU) 5 December 1980.

March to April 1990. On north half of site on green edge.
Copper alloy brooch fragment, lug on reverse, cast ribbed and ring and dot decoration ?Middle Saxon.
Photo.
Rim of early medieval ware (11th century) ginger jar with stamped decoration, large sub irregular shaped stamps with 20 roughly squared depressions divided by 3 vertical and 4 horizontal bars.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin with facetted head.
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate 'caterpillar' brooch, 'V'-shaped motifs on circular terminals with rims of single transverse lug and trace of catchplate.
To be photographed.
? medieval copper alloy shaft fragment, pentagonal section; terminal with moulded decoration, and other end broken. ? function.
Identified by S. Margeson (NAU).
A. Rogerson (NAU) 9 May 1990.

December 1990 to January 1991. Found with metal detecting.
Copper alloy 13th century buckle with expanded tongue rest (compare with Norwich Castle).

(S1) records this as Site 4, a small strip of medieval settlement. The settlement was in pronounced decline by the early post medieval period.
See (S1) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 19 May 2006