NHER 20792 (Monument record) - Site of Roman settlement and multi-period finds

1977-1978 and 1984. Field walking.
Ordnance Survey field Great Fransham 355.
Sizeable Roman site.
Ditches containg Roman material seen in section in land drains etc.
Much Roman pottery and brick in scatter.
Puddingstone and lava.
Medieval sherds including early medieval Ipswich ware, Thetford ware, worked flint post medieval sherds including glazed red earthenware and stoneware.
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
Information from (S1). See also (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 24 October 1984.

10 March 1991. Field walking.
Contexts 9 to 20, subdivisions of southeast part. Contexts 21 and 22, remainder.
See (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) March 1992.

December 1996 to January 1997. Metal-detecting.
1 ?Palaeolithic retouched flint flake.
8 Roman greyware pottery sherds from area in south-west corner of field.
1 Iron Age mount, ?from scabbard.
1 Romanknob/terminal and 1 unidentified copper alloy object fragment (rather like the side of a buckle; a handle?).
Flint identified by P. Robins (NCM) and other objects by D. Gurney (NLA) and A. Rogerson (NLA). See lists and plan in file.
These discoveries were reported in (S3).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 31 January 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 June 2013.