Record Details

NHER Number:13300
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Possible Bronze Age ship timber

Summary

In 1954 a timber from a ship was supposedly found near the present cemetery. It was suggested that this timber belonged to a Bronze Age boat.

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Location

Parish:WALSOKEN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

3 May 1954.
THWART(?) Timber, rectangular with an oval hole at each end. Supposed to have been found near the present cemetery (476 105?). Really in Norfolk?
Information from Wisbech and Fenland Museum 16 February 1978.
This is on display as Bronze Age.
A. Lawson (NAU) 26 June 1981.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)

Associated Finds

  • BOAT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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