Monument record HTC 013 - The Plains Farm (Rom)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 9932 5378 (66m by 58m) Centred on |
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Map sheet | TL95SE |
Civil Parish | HITCHAM, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (4)
Full Description
Scatter : coins brooches, found with metal detector in ploughsoil. Also large quantities of Roman tile and a few tesserae found fieldwalking suggest villa or significant building.
10 coins, date range Antoninus Pius to AD 341. 2 brooches (Colchester II and III La Tene III).
Large group of Roman finds found with a metal detector in ploughsoil. These include 4 silver coins (3 of Septimus Severus AD 193-211 & 1 of Antoninus Pius AD 147-161), just possibly a scattered hoard; 129 bronze coins, Vespasian through to the 340s. Several brooches and other pieces of metalwork, pottery (Samian, Nene Valley and shell-gritted); roofing tiles and box tiles (including unusual tegulae with combed under surfaces). Possible traces of bronze working (S1).
2005: metal detecting, fieldwalking and geophysics surveys - summary in (S2).
(N.B. For full list of artefacts see Arttype)
Sources/Archives (4)
- <S1> SSF19398 (No record type): SAU, Martin E, 1989.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: finds report & drawings.
- <M2> SSF37315 (No record type): Photograph:.
- <S2> SSF50250 Article in serial: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. PSIAH, 41, 2006, 'Archaeology in Suffolk 2005: Archaeol surveys', 241.
Finds (26)
- FSF36331: (Undated)
- FSF36332: TESSERA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FSF6300: COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6301: COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6302: COLCHESTER DERIVATIVE BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6303: NAUHEIM DERIVATIVE BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6304: LANGTON DOWN BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6305: ANIMAL BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6306: DISC BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6307: PLATE BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6308: WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6309: SPOON (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6310: METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6311: MOULD (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6312: KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6313: STEELYARD WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6314: (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6315: BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6316: BOTTLE (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6317: WINDOW GLASS (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6318: POTTERY SAMIAN (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6319: POTTERY NENE VALLEY (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6320: POTTERY (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6321: FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6322: ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
- FSF6323: QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Sep 23 2014 4:13PM