NHER 20796 (Monument record) - Site of medieval and post medieval settlement and multi-period finds

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Summary

This was the site of a small common edge settlement during the medieval and early post medieval periods. A house is first documented on the site in the mid 16th century. Field walking has recovered prehistoric flints and fragments of medieval and post medieval pottery.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF81SE
Civil Parish	FRANSHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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1979. Ordnance Survey field Great Fransham 361. Field walking in good conditions.
Worked flints.
Medieval sherds including Grimston and Grimston Thetford.
Post medieval sherds including glazed red earthenware and stoneware.
See (S1).
Found and identified by A. Rogerson (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 24 October 1984

Part of large scatter, NHER 30754

This site is recorded as Med 13 in (S2), which identifies this site with a messuage first recorded in about 1550. A house is shown on the site on (S3), but has now been demolished.
See (S2) for more details.
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 175).
Finds recovered at this location included:
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)

--- SNF15288 *Fieldwork: Fransham Survey. G361. AJGR.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF59723 Archive: Fransham Field Walking Boxfile.
<S2> SNF59813 Thesis: Rogerson, A.. 1995. Fransham: an archaeological and historical study of a parish on the Norfolk boulder clay.
<S3> SNF58039 Map: Browne, J.. 1807. Great Fransham, Little Fransham and North Pickenham Enclosure Award and Map.
<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 SNF102393 Unpublished Contractor Report: Evershed, R. and Pringle, I. 2015.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.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

SETTLEMENT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Object Types (3)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 2:09PM