NHER 4921 (Monument record) - Roman villa at Glebe Farm, Feltwell

Glebe Farm.

1962. North east of St Nicholas Church.
Roman building material and sherds found.

1964. Excavation.
Excavation of Roman bath house and pit containing medieval to post medieval sherds.
Iron Age sherds found.

1965. Excavation.
Roman villa?

A pit excavated beneath the Roman foundations at Context 1 was found to contain prehistoric pottery sherds, worked flints (including a 'saw') and animal bones.
These objects were donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1965.275).
Information from (S1)
The pottery sherds were subsequently examined by F. Healy and identified as fragments of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Grooved Ware dish. See drawing (S2). The other finds were identified as a small quantity of animal bone fragments, a worked bone point and a small assemblage of worked flints comprising 2 cores, 8 flakes, 1 end scraper, 1 side and end scraper and 1 bilaterally serrated blade (S3).
See (S4) (in which drawings (S2) and (S3) are reproduced) for further information, including a detailed description of the Grooved Ware pottery.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2018.

1969. Excavation.
Medieval vicarage.

1960 to 1970.
Human skeletons and Roman sherds found.

Pre 1979.
Roman coin found.

1979. Commercial excavations.
Few Roman sherds.

See notes in file and (S5) and (S6).
E. Rose (NAU), 24 July 1990.