NHER 54857 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period pottery

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Summary

In 2010 a test-pit was excavated by the Higher Education Field Academies which recovered Roman, Middle Saxon, medieval and post-medieval pottery. In 2017, four test pits by Binham Local History Group recovered Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery sherds, Roman tile fragments, and medieval brick, floor tile and roof tile fragments.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF93NE
Civil Parish BINHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

2010. Test-pit.
The site was first used in the Bronze Age and was then abandoned until the Roman period. The site was later occupied in the Middle Saxon period followed by absence of activity until the medieval and post-medieval periods.
See (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 3 September 2010.

23-25 June 2017. Test Pits. [1].
4 Test Pits were excavated by Binham Local History Group. Test Pits 2, 3 and 4 measured 1m x 1m, while Test Pit 1 measured approximately 2m x 1.5m. Finds recovered from the test pits were recorded by HES on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. They are as follows:

Test Pit 1 (Located at [2]):
Context 1: 15 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 2: 25 Roman potery sherds.
Context 3: 16 Roman pottery sherds, medieval brick fragment.
Context 4. 22 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 6: 23 Roman pottery sherds, medieval roof tile fragment.
54 Roman pottery sherds from either TP1 Context 6 or TP3 Context 6.

Test Pit 2 (Located at [3]):
Context 1: 1 post-medieval pottery sherd, 9 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 2: 2 Roman pottery sherds, 1 medieval pottery sherd.
Context 3: 4 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 5: 1 Roman coin of Trajan, 21 Roman pottery sherds, 3 Roman tile fragments, 1 medieval pottery sherd.
Context 6: 18 Roman pottery sherds, 1 Roman tile fragment, 1 medieval pottery sherd.

Test Pit 3 (Located at [4]):
Context 3: 1 medieval pottery sherd, 1 medieval floor tile fragment.
Context 4: 4 Roman pottery sherds, 1 medieval roof tile fragment.
Context 5: 15 Roman pottery sherds, 1 medieval roof tile fragment.
Context 6: 37 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 7: 29 Roman pottery sherds, 1 medieval pottery sherd.
Context 8: 16 Roman pottery sherds.
Context 9: 13 Roman pottery sherds.

Test Pit 4 (Located at [5]):
Context 1: 3 Roman pottery sherds, 4 post-medieval pottery sherds.
Context 2: 4 Roman pottery sherds, 2 medieval roof tile fragments, 1 post-medieval pottery sherd.
Context 4: 2 Roman pottery sherds, 1 post-medieval pottery sherd.
Context 5: 61 Roman pottery sherds, 1 post-medieval pottery sherd.

Information from PAS import.
See (S2). No further information is available about these test pits.
E. McDonald (HES), 1 November 2017. Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 22 November 2017 and 26 March 2020.

  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Access Cambridge Archaeology. 2010. Pottery from Binham Test-Pits (BIN/10). Finds Report.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Frost, D. 2017. Annotated photographs of test pits excavated by Binham Local History Group on 23-25 June 2017.
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • COIN (Roman - 98 AD to 117 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 100 AD to 200 AD)
  • POT (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 450 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Middle Saxon - 720 AD to 850 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • POT (Medieval - 1200 AD to 1400 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1250 AD to 1500 AD)
  • BRICK (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1500 AD)
  • FLOOR TILE (Medieval to 16th Century - 1375 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
  • POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)
  • POT (16th Century to 17th Century - 1550 AD to 1700 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 27 2020 12:17PM

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