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parish catalogue - paston

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place names

Domesday Book entry: Pastuna.1

Name origin: Of uncertain name origin, possibly from Anglo-Saxon personal name Paecci or pudd, origin of "puddle", or paesc(e) of similar meaning. The ending -ton indicating an enclosed farm or settlement2,5. Therefore, the name would mean either "Paecci's farm or settlement", or "settlement by a puddle or small pool".

Other place names: Stow Hill, "Stow" may mean simply a storage place, from Middle English or Dutch origin3, or it may come from Anglo-Saxon stoc or stow with one of several meanings including "place", "inhabited place", "holy place", "hermitage" or even "monastery"4,5; Edingthorpe Green, see Bacton Parish Catalogue entry for origin of the place name Edingthorpe; Dead Man's Grave.

Disambiguation: Paston cannot have any reference to there being pasture land, as this is a word deriving from Latin through Old French and later Middle English, therefore postdating the Domesday Book3.

Named water features: none.

other features of interest

none catalogued.

sites

stone age sites

none catalogued.

bronze age sites

none catalogued.

iron age sites

none catalogued.

roman and romano-british sites

none catalogued. However, Roman road "Crossdale Street" (my name) AN-5 may cross through Paston parish.

anglo-saxon sites

none catalogued.

anglo-viking sites

none catalogued.

finds

stone age finds

none catalogued.

neolithic finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-49. Excavation Dates: 1933. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic perforated dolerite axehammer. Source: NWHCM6 : 1933.87 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-60. Excavation Dates: 1971. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Neolithic partly polished damaged flint axe. Source: NWHCM6 : 1973.141 : A

bronze age finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-50. Excavation Dates: 1945. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Stow Hill) Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age hoard. Source: NWHCM6 : various

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-51. Excavation Dates: 1945. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Stow Hill) Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age copper alloy linear socketed axe. [Part of AN-50]. Source: NWHCM6 : 1947.27.1 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-52. Excavation Dates: 1945. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Stow Hill) Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age copper alloy unlooped palstave axe. [Part of AN-50]. Source: NWHCM6 : 1947.27.2 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-53. Excavation Dates: 1945. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Stow Hill) Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age copper alloy unlooped palstave axe. [Part of AN-50]. Source: NWHCM6 : 1947.27.3 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-54. Excavation Dates: 1945. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Stow Hill) Status: Verified. Details: Bronze Age broken copper alloy palstave axe. [Part of AN-50]. Source: NWHCM6 : 1956.60 : A

iron age finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-55. Excavation Dates: 1950. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Paston foreshore) Status: Verified. Details: Iron Age 2 pottery sherds. Source: NWHCM6 : 1957.134 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-56. Excavation Dates: 1950. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. (Paston foreshore) Status: Verified. Details: Iron Age complete carinated pottery bowl. Source: NWHCM6 : 1957.134 : A

roman and romano-british finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-57. Excavation Dates: 1958. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Romano-British pottery sherds. Source: NWHCM6 : 1959.433 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-58. Excavation Dates: 1900. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Romano-British complete small black ware jar. Source: NWHCM6 : 1960.397 : A

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-59. Excavation Dates: 1971. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Roman grey and buff ware pottery sherds. Source: NWHCM6 : 1971.400 : A

anglo-saxon finds

none catalogued.

anglo-viking finds

rating five out of five. Catalogue Number: AN-61. Excavation Dates: 2003. Grid Reference: uncatalogued. Status: Verified. Details: Anglo-Viking copper alloy brooch fragment. Source: NWHCM6 : 2004.39 : A

unanswered questions

Can you help answer any of the questions below, and including citations of primary or secondary sources? If so, please contact me.
  1. Do you know of any other finds or sites predating the Anglo-Saxon period in Paston parish?
  2. What is the origin of "Stow" in the name "Stow Hill"? Perhaps postdating Domesday Book, from "stow" suggesting storage; perhaps relating to windmill in Mundesley parish?

primary sources

none catalogued.

secondary sources

1Williams, Ann & Martin, G.H. ( eds.) (2002) Domesday Book, A Complete Translation. Penguin Classics.

2 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epncurrent/php/detailpop.php?placeno=9679

3Allen, R.E. ( ed.) (1990) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 8th Edition. OUP.

5Mills, A.D. ( ed.) (1991). Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names OUP.

6http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/

tertiary sources

4Rye, James (1991). A Popular Guide to Norfolk Place-Names. The Larks Press.

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