NHER 20520 (Monument) - Site of medieval settlement, post medieval field boundaries and multi-period finds

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Summary

A concentration of burnt flint was found during a field walking survey. Slight earthworks on the site appear to correspond with post-medieval field boundaries shown on the 1807 enclosure map. Medieval bricks and fragments of pottery were also found on the site, which was part of a common edge settlement during the medieval period.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF81SE
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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Winter 1978. OS field Great Fransham 63. Detailed fieldwork, good conditions.
Vague earthworks, possibly the field subdivisions shown on (S1).
Pot boiler concentration about 10m across in dark soil (context 3 at 8835 1300).
Medieval pottery and brick, mainly Grimston and early medieval wares.
See details in (S2).
Information from A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 9 July 1984

This site is recorded as Med 1 in (S3), but no documentary evidence for the medieval settlement has been found.
S. Spooner (NLA) 15 December 2005.

July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 180).
No finds of archaeological interest were recovered at this location.
See report (S4) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 August 2023.

Associated Sources (6)

<S1> SNF58039 Map: Browne, J.. 1807. Great Fransham, Little Fransham and North Pickenham Enclosure Award and Map.
<S2> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
<S3> SNF59813 Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay.
<S4> SNF102393 Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015.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.
--- SNF15325 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G63. AJGR.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (3)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 2:31PM