NHER 20742 (Monument record) - Site of medieval and post medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

A concentration of prehistoric pot boilers has been found during field walking at this site. This was the site of a small settlement during the medieval period, which had been abandoned by the 14th century, when it was recorded in medieval documents. In the late 16th century a new tenement was built on the site, encroaching onto the common. Field walking has recovered prehistoric flints, fragments of pottery dating from the Roman to the post medieval period, medieval roof tile, and parts of a lava quern and slag of unknown date.

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Location

Map sheet	TF91SW
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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April 1979. Field walking. Ordnance Survey Field Great Fransham 136. Not extensive, in good conditions.
Medieval sherds including Grimston; post medieval sherds including stoneware, patch of slag.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 22 October 1984.

March 1986. Field walking. Good conditions.
Finds as above plus flints, lava, Late Saxon sherds and possible Roman sherd.
See (S1)
E. Rose (NAU) 7 November 1986.

7 March 1994. Field walking. East end of field re-examined under good conditions.
Documentary references in (S2) indicate a medieval settlement site in extreme southeast corner on a headland.
Contexts 24 to 27 subdivisions, Context 28 a stray find.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 25 January 1995.

Site recorded as Med 108 in (S2), which states that the site ceased to be occupied at some point before it was recorded in documents in the 14th century. At the end of the 16th century a new tenement was built on the site, encroaching onto the common.
S. Spooner (NLA) 15 December 2005

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF15200 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G236. 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 (3)

Object Types (8)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
QUERN (Unknown date)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 12 2021 11:18AM