NHER 31011 (Monument record) - Site of medieval settlement, prehistoric flints and multi-period pottery

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Summary

This was the site of a common edge settlement during the medieval period, and is recorded in medieval documents dating to the late 14th century onwards. Prehistoric flints and fragments of pottery dating from the medieval and post medieval periods have been found during field walking.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91SW
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

27 December 1994. Field walking finds.
Medieval and post medieval sherds (on site of medieval settlement according to documentary evidence).
1 flint.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 25 January 1995.

This site is recorded as MED114 in (S2). Four separate messuages or tenements are recorded on the site from the late 14th and 15th centuries.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 21 December 2005

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G240. 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 (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Dec 21 2005 10:47AM

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