Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1814 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age pottery finds |
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Summary
Fragments of Middle Bronze Age pottery, probably cremation urns, were found in 1947.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9278 4294 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF94SW |
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| Parish: | WELLS NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1947. Stray Find.
Leicester Lime Works at depth of just over a metre (3 feet 6 inches); site removed by grab -floor of pit now 20 feet [6m] below.
Rim of Middle Bronze Age overhanging rim urn and fragments of two other pots; no calcined bones reported but probably burials.
Sherds donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1952.113). See drawings (S1) and annotated sketches (S2) and (S3).
Information from (S4).
The "overhanging rim" sherd is from a Bronze Age Collared Urn and is described and figured in (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 94 SW 2. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. [Unknown]. Drawing of Bronze Age pottery sherds (including Collared Urn). Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: [Unknown]. [Unknown]. Annotated sketches of Bronze Age pottery sherds (including Collared Urn). Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: [Unknown]. [Unknown]. Annotated sketches of Bronze Age pottery sherds. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Wells. |
| <S5> | Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. p 230; No 976. |
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