Record Details

NHER Number:2333
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic and Beaker pottery from Grimston Heath

Summary

Fragments of Neolithic and Beaker pottery found in the 1930s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 765 222
Map Sheet:TF72SE
Parish:GRIMSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1936.
Grimston Heath. About 274m (300 yds) from Little Massingham Belt (not named on Ordnance Survey), about 274m (300 yds) south of main Grimston to Great Massingham Road.
2 small sherds Holdenhurst Ware (one a rim). In thickness colour and dcoration identical with Stow Bardolph material (rusticated ware B. Green (NCM)).
Information from [1].
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

1937.
Beaker sherds on Grimston Heath close to Little Massingham Belt near Holdenhurst rusticated ware site.
Information from [1].
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 544.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 21.
---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. Grimston.

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