NHER 24765 (Find Spot record) - Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a settlement during the Roman period. The settlement site continues under NHER 24766 and NHER 24767. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods, and post medieval clay pipes.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF91SW
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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1988. Gridded field walking Fransham survey. AJGR L106. Contexts 1 to 12.
Worked flints,
Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds.
Thetford ware sherds.
Slag.
Clay pipe.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) August 1988

1 April 1994. Field walking finds.
Context 13, including Context 1. Re-examined rapidly.
Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 25 January 1995.

This is recorded as RB9 in (S2), as well as sites NHER 24766 and NHER 24767.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 19 December 2005

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF15613 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L106. AJGR.
<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 (2)

Object Types (9)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
POT (Undated)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)