NHER 29408 (Monument record) - Possible site of Roman building

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1992 recovered fragments of Roman pottery, glass, querns and tiles from the area of a rectangular enclosure visible on earlier aerial photographs. This may indicate the former presence of a Roman building. Prehistoric burnt flints and medieval pottery fragments were also found.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TM29SW
Civil Parish	HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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9 July 1973. Ordnance Survey air photography.
Subrectangular enclosure.
These features may just be enclosure field boundaries but they had gone by 1946. The alignment of these features is at odds with the modern layout, so I think it possible that they may be pre-enclosure.
D. Voisey (NLA), 4 September 1995.

November 1992-January 1993. Systematic Fieldwalking Survey.
Evaluation on proposed route of Hardwick Landfill site access road (Field 2):
Pot boilers.
Roman concentration of sherds, glass, querns, tile at Context 2.
Medieval sherds.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.164).
E. Rose (NLA), 11 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 31 March 2015 and 5 December 2022.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF48005 Aerial Photograph: OS 73-359-190.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF61439 Unpublished Contractor Report: Penn, K. 1993. Summary Report on an Archaeological Survey on the Hardwick Landfill Site Access. Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
<S2> SNF6263 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 115-123. p 118.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (9)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)