NHER 20606 (Find Spot record) - Site of medieval settlement and medieval and post medieval pottery

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Summary

This was the site of a small settlement during the medieval period, and a house and close of twenty acres is first recorded on the site in about 1430. Fieldwalking has recovered fragments of medieval and post medieval pottery and a probable flint flake.

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Map sheet	TF81SE
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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August 1978. Ordnance Survey Great Fransham Field 115 (rear garden of Wellingham Farm).
Vegetable patch only investigated; finds suggest nearby medieval occupation.
Large numbers (for size) of Grimston ware etc, glazed red earthenware, stone ware etc.
See details in (S1).
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 5 September 1984.

1985 to 1998. Field walking.
Further medieval sherds.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 January 1999.

August 1999. Fieldwalking.
1 medieval Grimston Ware pottery sherd.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 3 August 2017.

This site is recorded as Med 18 in (S2).
A close of 20 acres and a house are recorded on the site in about 1430.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 15 December 2005

August 2000 to January 2004. Further collection from vegetable patch.
1 probable flint flake.
Medieval and post medieval pottery sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 27 February 2007.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF15124 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G115. AJGR.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
<S2> SNF59813 Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (4)

FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 24 2026 4:23PM