Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1135 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age beaker, prehistoric flints and multi-period pottery sherds |
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Summary
In 1974 workmen digging a pipe trench here found part of an Early Bronze Age beaker. Subsequently, in 1983, a number of medieval and post medieval pottery sherds were recovered from the same site, along with prehistoric flints and fragments of post medieval clay pipes.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2031 9593 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM29NW |
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| Parish: | TASBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1974. Stray Find.
Found by workmen in pipe trench.
Approximately one S1/N2 Beaker. See drawing (S1).
Information from member of the public [1].
See (S2).
A. Lawson (NAU) November 1974.
January/February 1983. Over surrounding field surface.
Green-glazed Grimston, late medieval/transitional, medieval sherds, post medieval sherds, clay pipes; some
struck flint. (Four flakes, one blade. Identified by F. Healy (NAU)).
Finds held by NCM, formerly by member of the public [2].
W. Milligan (NCM) 2 March 1983.
Report in file.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: HY26-31 (Trench), 30-37. |
| --- | Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 8. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 29 NW 28. |
| --- | 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 - Neolithic. Tasburgh. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Lawson, A. 1974. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery Beaker vessel. Film. 2:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Lawson, A. J. 1975. A Beaker from Tasburgh, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVI Pt II pp 183-184. |
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