NHER 20820 (Monument record) - Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a settlement during the medieval period, which is recorded in documents dating from the late 14th century. Field walking and metal detecting has recovered prehistoric flints, a medieval buckle, and medieval and post medieval pottery.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

13 March 1984. Ordnance Survey field Little Fransham 117. Field walking.
Medieval sherds including Grimston and early medieval.
Post medieval sherds including stoneware and glazed red earthenware, worked flint.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU), 26 October 1984

1 May 1992. Field walking and metal detecting finds.
Context 4. Metal detecting of previously defined medieval/post medieval concentration.
Much post medieval material not listed.
Medieval buckle plate and fragments of ?2 others.
Medieval and post medieval pottery also collected.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 October 1992.

This site is recorded as Med 69 in (S2). The site has a complex tenurial history, and is recorded in documents from the late 14th century and the site had five separate messuages by 1457.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA), 16 December 2005.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L117. AJGR.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
  • <S2> Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 8 2026 11:50AM

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