NHER 24780 (Monument 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. The earliest documentary reference to a house on this site dates to about 1420. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, pottery dating from the medieval and post medieval periods, and post medieval clay pipes.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1988. Gridded field walking Fransham survey.
Contexts 1 and 2.
Medieval and post medieval sherds.
Lava quern.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) August 1988

3 June 1990. Remainder of field walked.
Context 3.
Worked flint.
Medieval and post medieval sherds.
Post medieval clay pipes.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) March 1992

20 March 1994. Field walking finds. Casual transversal of field.
Context 3.
Additional 2 medieval sherds.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 25 January 1995.

This site is recorded as MED66A in (S2), and the earliest documentary reference to a messuage on the site dates to about 1420.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 20 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L114. AJGR.
  • <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)
  • QUERN (Undated)
  • 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

Apr 8 2026 4:29PM

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