NHER 28881 (Find Spot record) - Site of medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a settlement during the medieval period, which was recorded in documents dating from the mid 14th century. Field walking recovered prehistoric flints, and pottery dating from the medieval and post medieval periods.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

18 May 1991. Field walking finds.
Context 1 to 8. Area south of runway.
Medieval sherds.
Flints.
Major medieval concentration in 5 and 6, 7 and 8.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) March 1992.

March 1993. Field walking finds.
Remainder of north part of field, Contexts 9 to 26, general scatter.
Medieval and post medieval sherds.
Quern.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) November 1993.

This site is recorded as MED95 in (S2). Documentary evidence for the settlement begins in the mid 14th century, when a messuage was already in existence on the site.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 20 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G324. 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. p213.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • QUERN (Undated)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 8 2026 1:58PM

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