NHER 20620 (Monument record) - Prehistoric pot boilers, medieval pottery and post-medieval crotal bell

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1979 and 1990 identified a concentration of prehistoric pot boilers and recovered fragments of medieval pottery. A systematic survey of part of this field in 2013/2014 recovered a post-medieval crotal bell.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF81SE
Civil Parish FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Late 1979. Field Ordnance Survey Great Fransham 162. Field walking, very poor conditions.
2 medieval sherds.
Pot boiler site, approximately west of pit ('plot 160') not recorded in detail, to await better conditions.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 5 September 1984

13 May 1990. Field walking finds
Contexts 2 to 13.
Findspots Context 14 at TF 8841 1333: Potboiler concentration.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) March 1992.

July 2013-April 2014. Systematic Fieldwalking and Metal-detecting Survey.
Survey of proposed route of Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm onshore cable (Field 179).
A post-medieval crotal bell was the only find of note recovered at this location.
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 August 2023.

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G162. AJGR.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015.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.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Undated)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 2:35PM

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