NHER 21543 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period finds indicating possible site of Roman settlement and Middle Saxon activity

17 and 24 March 1985. Fieldwalking Survey.
Hales site 161.
Fieldwalking on rather sandy boulder clay, ploughed, surface reasonably weathered - conditions fair. To south, seen when cultivated and rolled (see file plan).
Context 1 = general scatter:
2 worked flints.
6 probably all Roman greyware.
1 medieval unglazed.
6 post medieval.
Context 2 at [1] (Site 161a) - Concentration, some inequalities - roughly west-northwest to east-southeast ridges noted. General slope to south from crown of rise.
114 Roman greyware, 2 Roman oxidised.
6 worked flints.
1 sherd Neolithic/Bronze Age.
22 medieval unglazed, 4 medieval glazed.
3 late medieval/Trans.
46 post medieval and few 18th-19th century.
3 post medieval tiles.
1 malting kiln tile.
1 vitrified tile probably Roman.
1 rim non-Ipswich Middle Saxon pimply.
1 rim non-Ipswich Middle Saxon ginger jar harsh pimply.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 12 July 1985.
Details in file.

Published article (S1) records this as the site of a Roman settlement, with some evidence of possible Middle Saxon occupation.
S. Spooner (NLA) 12 June 2006