NHER 29222 (Monument record) - Site of medieval pottery works, post medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a small pottery works during the medieval period. A small settlement developed here from the post medieval period, and a house surrounded by a ditch is mentioned in a document of 1589. A moat-like feature is visible on the tithe map of 1839. Fieldwalking and metal detecting recovered pottery dating from the Roman to the post medieval periods, a medieval brooch and buckle, and other medieval and post medieval metal finds.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF91SW
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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11,12 June 1992. Field walking finds.
Contexts 1 to 33.
Includes post medieval site and dense, small, concentration of medieval pottery production waste
Also Roman sherds
Possible moat on (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 14 October 1992

1993. Field walking finds.
Context 34 a rapid rewalk of Context 22.
Medieval sherds.
A. Rogerson (NLA) November 1993.

Before September 1998. Metal detecting.
Medieval coin
Medieval and post medieval metal finds and sherds
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 16 November 1998.

This site is recorded as MED103 and MED104 in (S3). MED103 represents the remains of a short lived medieval pottery production site, and consists mainly of 12th and 13th century sherds. MED104 is a concentration of post medieval finds, and is recorded is documents from the 16th century onwards. In 1589 a house was standing on the site, surrounded by a ditch and a hedge.
See (S3) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA), 21 December 2005.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF15711 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. L86. AJGR.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
<S2> SNF59986 Map: 1839. Little Fransham Tithe Map.
<S3> SNF59813 Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (12)

QUERN (Undated)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BROOCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
SPINDLE WHORL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 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 9 2026 11:09AM