NHER 24771 (Monument record) - Site of medieval manor of Wilcocks

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Summary

This is the probable site of the medieval manor of Wilcocks. A house is first recorded on the site in the mid 14th century, and 15th century accounts record the presence of a barn, a dovecote and other buildings. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, including a concentration of prehistoric pot boilers, pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods, post medieval clay pipes and lava querns of unknown date. Metal detecting in 2008 recovered a Romano-British brooch, Late Saxon stirrup mount, and medieval and undatable metal objects.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF81SE
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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March 1988.
Gridded field walking Fransham survey.
Contexts 1 to 32.
Pot boiler site.
Worked flints, Iron Age, medieval and post medieval sherds, clay pipes, lava quern.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) August 1988

February - March 2008. Metal-detecting.
1 Roman brooch (Dolphin).
1 Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount.
1 medieval coin, 1 jetton, 1 limestone architectural fragment and 1 buckle plate.
1 undatable ring and 1 casting waste fragment.
Numismatic items identified by A. Marsden (NLA) and other objects by S. Ashley (NLA). See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 April 2008.
Updated by J. Page (HES), 26 February 2014.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF15691 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L6. AJGR.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (15)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
CASTING WASTE (Unknown date)
POT (Undated)
QUERN (Undated)
RING (Unknown date)
BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
JETTON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 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)

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Record last edited

Mar 24 2026 10:53AM