NHER 20447 (Monument record) - Site of Iron Age settlement, post medieval house and multi-period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF81SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
November 1983. Field west of site of Curds Hall, and avenue to west, former OS Great Fransham 30 and including site of small cottage 31.
Intensive field walking in good conditions with burnt stubble on arable, but parts of area still pasture.
About 110 sherds sandy and flint gritted Iron Age, worked flints, lump of shelly limestone, medieval sherds.
At 8860 1236 (S1) shows evidence of post medieval brick kiln (for building Curds Hall?)
No finds except 18th to 20th century on site of cottage.
See (S2).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 5 June 1984.
July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 183).
No finds of archaeological interest were recovered at this location.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 August 2023.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF15251 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G30. AJGR.
- --- SNF15261 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G31. AJGR.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF59763 Map: Hanging Plan.
- <S2> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
- <S3> SNF102393 Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015. Archaeological Non-intrusive Survey Report: Geophysical Survey by Magnetometry, Fieldwalking and Metal Detecting for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Electrical Connection, Norfolk. Allen Archaeology Ltd. AAL 2014060.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (6)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Unknown date)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
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Record last edited
Mar 25 2026 2:20PM