NHER 25546 (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, and a house is first recorded on the site in the 14th century. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, pottery dating from the Iron Age to the post medieval periods, and post medieval clay pipes.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1989. Field walking finds.
Iron Age, medieval and post medieval sherds.
Flints.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) September 1989.

4 March 1991. Field walking finds.
Contexts 2 to 19. Whole field walked.
Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post medieval sherds.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NAU) March 1992

This site is recorded as MED93 in (S2).
A messuage is first recorded on the site in the 14th century.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 20 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G12. 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)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Undated)
  • QUERN (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 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

Apr 8 2026 4:16PM

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