NHER 4706 (Monument record) - Undated enclosure and medieval to post medieval settlement

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Summary

Cropmarks of an oval enclosure can be seen on an aerial photograph. Fieldwalking has recovered pieces of Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval and undated pottery. Medieval building material and prehistoric worked flints have also been recorded. This is the site of two concentrations of medieval to post medieval settlement.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL89NE
Civil Parish LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

9 June 1946. Ordnance Survey RAF aerial photographs.
Cropmarks (white oval).
E. Rose (NAU).

Cropmark located in finder's field LC1B.

1986 to 1987. Fieldwalking.
Iron Age, Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval and undated pottery.
Medieval building material.
Flints.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 July 1988.

For details of fieldwalking see file for NHER 24669.

(S1) records activity here continuing through the medieval period and into early post medieval times. A second concentration of settlement is on the margin of the Low Common. The second concentration contains recently demolished buildings hwere late medieval/transitional and post medieval pot was recovered.
See (S1).
M. Dennis (NLA), 4 May 2006.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Cressingham, Little.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Davison, A. 1994. The Field Archaeology of Bodney and the Stanta Extension. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 57-79. pp 59, 67, 69.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 18 2023 7:48AM

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