Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1354 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Finds from Bronze Age peat deposit located between Hunstanton and Brancaster |
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Summary
This is a large area of peat deposit which was formed in the Bronze Age. Small tree trunks, roots and branches can be seen in the peat. This number has been assigned to finds from this deposit. The tree remains are known locally as 'people sleepers'.
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Location
Full description
This county number will be used for any finds located simply as 'submerged forest' without any more definite locality (and not therefore for example the Thornham scalp axe). It is not possible to obtain exact limits for the forest which extends generally from Titchwell/Brancaster to Hunstanton.
22 April 1982.
No real trace at Titchwell/Brancaster boundary where marked on (S1), except large masses of peat - this area disturbed by 1953 flood scour. But at Thornham/Titchwell boundary a good exposure of small tree trunks, roots and branches in situ. Known locally as 'people sleepers' (sleeper = as in railway, a length of wood. People sleeper = sleeper the size of a man).
E. Rose (NAU).
October 2005.
This peat deposit has been dated to the Bronze Age.
See (S2).
M. Dennis (NLA), 6th October 2005.
Monument Types
- SUBMARINE FOREST (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map.. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Funnell, B.M. and Pearson, I.. 1984. A Guide to the Holocene Geology of North Norfolk.. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk. Vol 34, pp 123-140. |
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