NHER 24776 (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 and metal detecting recovered prehistoric flints, coins dating from the Roman to the post medieval periods, fragments of medieval and post mediveal pottery and other medieval and post medieval metal objects.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1988. Gridded field walking Fransham survey.
Contexts 1 to 10.
Medieval and post medieval sherds.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) August 1988

15 June 1991. Field walking finds
Context 11, rewalk of context 3
Context 12, slight medieval concentration in area of 5 and 7
A. Rogerson (NLA March 1992

Late 1997. Metal detecting finds.
1 Roman, 1 medieval and 3 post medieval sherds.
Roman, medieval, post medieval coins
Roman skillet handle.
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 February 1998.

This is recorded as MED65 in (S2). A messuage is recorded on the site in 1353.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 19 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L80. AJGR.
  • --- Monograph: Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 101.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
  • QUERN (Undated)
  • SPINDLE WHORL (Undated)
  • WEIGHT (Undated)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SKILLET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • DRESS COMPONENT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • PURSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SCABBARD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 9 2026 10:25AM

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