Monument record PSM 003 - Pottery and metalwork scatter scatter, and Time Team excavation - for full list of artefacts on screen, see Arttype. (Rom)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 5938 2511 (312m by 185m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL52NE |
Civil Parish | PRESTON ST MARY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
Pottery scatter - for full list of artefacts on screen, see Arttype. Surface finds including samian, amphora, a little Oxford and Nene Valley (mortaria) and colour coated (? Colchester and ? import), a few shell gritted sherds and grey wares including C3-C4 forms. Also a rim sherd of Mayen ware. Occasional fragments of tile (? roof and floor). Collected over a number years. Two coins, C3 and C4, found metal detecting (S1).
1975: trial hole at (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s) showed an area of compacted burnt soil with flints circa 0.30m below the surface (S2).
Bronze penannular brooch (similar to Hattatt no. 649; Fowler's Type A) found many years ago on a field, exact findspot uncertain (S3).
1987: The landowner suggested that the small size and regular trapezoid shape of the main field were unusual and might represent a survival of the Rom settlement boundary (S5).
1990: Forty coins (Vespasian - Valentinian), brooches (mostly fragmentary), key handle and other handle terminals and finger ring fragment found metal detecting (S4).
Continued metal detecting increased the quantity and range - several hundred coins span the full Rom period, wide range of brooch types, a few late Rom belt fittings (propellor-shaped mount, Hawkes & Dunning type IIA buckle fragment, strap end as Lankhills no 534). Also a few pieces of possible metal working debris (bronze - ?slag)(S6). The distribution also shown to extend beyond the originally defined areas into fields to east and north- west.
Further Rom and IA found to the NE - possibly an earlier settlement focus? - see PSM 008.
1995: Limited excavation and geophysical survey work was carried out in connection with the `Time Team' TV programme (summary account in S7). For full report see (S9).
Also Med, BA & IA.
Sources/Archives (10)
- <S1> SSF22138 (No record type): Thorpe A, 1972-1987.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: finds reports, drawings, maps.
- <S2> SSF22139 (No record type): Thorpe A, 1975.
- <S3> SSF1175 (No record type): Beckett R per BSEMH (Mycock C), 1989.
- <S4> SSF21338 (No record type): Smith A, 1990.
- <S5> SSF22148 (No record type): Thorpe A, letter, 1987.
- <S6> SSF21310 (No record type): Smith A & Marsh T, 1991-1994.
- <S7> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Archaeology in Suffolk 1995, PSIA 38, pt 4, 1996, 482.
- <S8> SSF50036 Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeologcial Service. Various. SIAFG, Fieldwalk at Priory Farm, Preston, ms report, April 1989, ill.
- <S9> SSF61766 Unpublished document: Boulter, S.. 1995. Archaeological Excavation Report - Preston St. Mary.
Finds (27)
- FSF23172: POTTERY (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23173: POTTERY SAMIAN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23174: POTTERY OXFORD (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23175: POTTERY COLOUR COATED (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23176: POTTERY NENE VALLEY (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23177: TILE (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23178: POTTERY CONTINENTAL IMPORT (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23179: COIN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23180: COIN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23181: HOD HILL BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23182: THISTLE BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23183: LANGTON DOWN BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23184: COLCHESTER DERIVATIVE BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23185: DISC BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23186: KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23187: FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23188: MIRROR (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23189: BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23190: AUCISSA BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23191: TRUMPET BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23192: COLCHESTER BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23193: HEAD STUD BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23194: PIN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23195: TWEEZERS (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23196: STRAP FITTING (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23197: BUCKLE (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
- FSF23198: STRAP END (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jan 18 2024 11:50AM