NHER 23886 (Find Spot record) - Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a small settlement during the medieval period. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, pottery dating from the medieval and the post medieval periods.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

March 1987. Field walking. Old OS field G174. Good conditions.
In area 25 at TF 9219 1246, pot boiler site slightly dark soil, 10m north to south, 14m east to west.
Worked flints; medieval and post medieval sherds; 1 sherd amphora? Or drainpipe.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 5 August 1987.

28 January 1990. Field walking.
Context 26. Rewalking of medieval concentration in contexts 1, 2, 13, 14.
A. Rogerson (NLA), March 1992.

This site is recorded as Med 59 in (S2), and is mentioned in documents from the 16th century onwards.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 19 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G174. 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)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 9 2026 11:27AM

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