Record Details
| NHER Number: | 12736 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Bronze Age pottery vessel and human remains |
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Summary
An Early Bronze Age decorated pottery vessel and a female skeleton were found during sand extraction works in 1972.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6959 4025 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF64SE |
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| Parish: | OLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
July 1972.
Beaker and female skeleton found at a depth of 90cm (3 feet) in digging sand.
Site is on Ringstead Downs, on a low hill between two valleys.
Grid reference supplied in 1977 by R. Trett (KLM).
See (S1).
Full details in file.
Drawings (S2) and (S3) in the Illustration Library.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 64 SE 39. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Monograph: Kinnes, I.. 1978. A Beaker Burial on Ringstead Downs, Old Hunstanton. East Anglian Archaeology. No 8 pp 19-22. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1975. Drawing of a Beaker pot.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1975. Drawing of a Beaker pot.. Card. 1:1. |
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