Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10239 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Undated urns |
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Summary
In around 1845 a number of urns were uncovered during the construction of the Norwich to Great Yarmouth railway.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 344 061 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30NW |
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| Parish: | STRUMPSHAW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Around 1845. In making Norwich-Yarmouth railway.
Probably northwest of Buckenham Station on edge of old Strumpshaw parish where is a cutting.
Seven urns turned up in a cutting. Three sherds sent to NCM 1951 from Chester Museum which had received them in a miscellaneous collection from Foulkes family).
See (S1).
Finds held by NCM.
These have been called Roman, but the three sherds in NCM were examined by Maggie Darling and Tony Gregory who were not convinced.
D. Gurney (NLA), 3 August 2009.
Monument Types
Associated Finds
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 NE 8. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Strumpshaw. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Chester, G. J.. 1855. A Brief Sketch of the Antiquities of the Valleys of the Waveney and Yare. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol IV pp 310-316. p 315. |
Related records
| 11862 | Related to: Cropmarks of a trackway and field system of possible Roman date (Monument) |
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