NHER 24703 (Monument record) - Possible Early Saxon settlement and medieval to post medieval settlement

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking. Field LC34.
Notes and plan in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 1 August 1988.

Context 1.
One bowl rim Early Saxon slightly gritty with smoothed surfaces.
Fourteen body sherds Early Saxon sandy/grittysome with organic inclusions, includes one only which is sufficiently gritty to be Iron Age.

Context 2.
Five flints.
Two Roman grey and one Roman coarse.
One pimply Ipswich.
Fifty five medieval unglazed.
Eleven glazed Grimston.
One medieval glazed.
Seven late medieval/transitional.
Six glazed red earthenware.
Three post medieval black glazed.
One post medieval green glazed.
Four lava quern.

Context 3.
One flint.
One rim large Grimston-Thetford bowl.
Twelve medieval unglazed.
Nineteen glazed Grimston, some late medieval to early post medieval.
Twenty late medieval/transitional.
Six glazed red earthenware.
One late post medieval black glazed.
Five post medieval stoneware.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) describes as a certain concentration of Early Saxon pot. It also describes part of the site as a L-shaped concentration of finds facing the droveway linking High and Low Common. It is the strongest of all settled areas facing the commons. There are hints of earlier activity.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.