NHER 21631 (Monument record) - Prehistoric flints and multi-period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF81SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
17 April 1985. Fieldwalking.
Ordnance Survey Field Little Fransham 69.
Field walking in good conditions, ploughed and harrowed.
Worked flint, including, according to (S2), a large secondary flake of possible Palaeolithic date (TF 8983 1261).
Medieval sherds, late medieval/early post medieval, post medieval sherds including glazed red earthenware.
Medieval 14th/15th green floor tile fragment, 47mm thick.
Limestone
Lava
Also three pot boiler sites:
Context 10 (TF 8278 1260) 6m north to south x 6m east to west in west edge of newly cleaned dyke, under hedge bank; all in topsoil not cut into natural.
Context 12 (TF 8989 1258), 16m east to west x north to south.
Context 13 (TF 8999 1261) 16m east to west and north to south
See (S1) and (S2).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 14 August 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 June 2013.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF15671 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L188. 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 (5)
Object Types (8)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
- FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 18 2023 4:27PM