Monument record BUT 004 - Mount Field, Neutral Farm (Sax)

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Summary

"definitely AS decorated pottery".

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 3748 5080 (425m by 529m)
Map sheet TM35SE
Civil Parish BUTLEY, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

"definitely AS decorated pottery" (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). ? Scatter elsewhere to N. Rectangular hut floor - ox skull and spearhead (R1).
Basil Brown records that Saxon pottery found by Mr Page and others had impressed ornamentation, swastika, cross & dot etc., probably from cinerary urn (S1).
Stanley West Ms, 1954, records Saxon finds at (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) (hut floor, skull with Saxon spearhead), (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). He states the settlement `on (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s), consists of scattered hearth sites, each with typical fifth-sixth century hand-made Sax sherds. In Hearth 14, the only decorated Sax sherd in the whole Butley region was found, and in Hearth 9 an iron spear-head with a split socket was discovered. This hut was examined by a interested local inhabitant and appeared to be a subrectangular area with a central hearth, measuring approximately twelve feet by sixteen feet'. For description of the pottery, see (S2).
1989: Half pair tweezers, with slight groove & discontinuous punched dots along margins, found metal detecting by(see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s)(possibly Rom?). Drawn (S3).
Also BA, IA & Rom.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <M1> Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Basil Brown archive: volumes, card index, map.
  • <S1> Unpublished document: Basil Brown. Basil Brown Archive. Brown B, XIII, 43; XCV, 70,71; XCVI, 140,147; cards 100,101; map 122.
  • <R1> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 25, 1950, (2), 208.
  • <S2> (No record type): West S E, "The Archaeology of the Butley Region", Ms, 1954, 18-19, map, figs 3 & 24.
  • <M2> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: copy of (S2)(S3).
  • <S3> Finds Report: Plouviez, J.. 1995. SCCAS Finds Record:. SAU, Plouviez J, finds report & artefact record sheet, BUT 004, May 1989, drawing.

Finds (4)

Protected Status/Designation

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Record last edited

Sep 10 2009 5:12PM

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