NHER 32781 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period objects and pottery sherds, 'Drakes Green'

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Summary

Fieldwalking here in 1997 recovered sherds of Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery. Other finds included prehistoric pot boilers and parts of a post medieval tobacco pipe. 18th century maps refer to this area as Drakes Green, and this may be the name of the owner.See NHER 54462 for earthworks of probable medieval to post medieval trackways and boundaries, some of which may be associated with Drakes Green, and would appear to pre-date the establishment of Taverham Park.

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Map sheet	TG11SW
Civil Parish	TAVERHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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1997. Fieldwalking finds. Scatter includes NHER 23430 & 14870. Found over large area.
TA 1-9 west field centred TG 146 137.
TA 21-42 east field centred TG 152 137.
?Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery.
Post medieval tobacco pipe.
Pot boilers.
See list and plans in file. The results of this work are also summarised in (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 May 1997.

Map of 1740 (in parish file) calls this area Drakes Green which [1] suggests comes from Drake meaning Dragon, hence a burial mound, as in other Norfolk sites. But as late as 1640 this might be an owners name.
E. Rose (NLA) 25 January 2000.

NGR corrected from original (TG 1480 1362).
M. Horlock (NLA) 21 March 2003.

August 2010. Norfolk NMP.
See NHER 54462 for earthworks of probable medieval to post medieval trackways and boundaries, some of which may be associated with Drakes Green, and would appear to pre-date the establishment of Taverham Park.
S. Horlock (NMP), 31 August 2010.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF86456 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1998. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1997. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt I pp 193-210. p 206.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (8)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 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)