Record Details

NHER Number:2357
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman quern and pottery

Summary

Part of a Roman quern and fragments of Roman pottery found in the 1950s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 854 275
Map Sheet:TF82NE
Parish:HELHOUGHTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1950. South corner of field Ordnance Survey 179, 548m (600 yds) south southwest of Pinkney Hall.
Half of rotary quern of pudding stone and Roman pottery.
Quern in S.S. George's Collection (NCM) but could not be identified in 1963.

1957.
3 bases, 2 rims carinated piece of pale grey coarse ware (?Roman) found in Valley Farm.
Reported in (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 3.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 82 NE 1.
---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 - Roman. Helhoughton [2].

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