Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2411 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age/Early Saxon pot |
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Summary
Around 1912 a hand-made pot in a coarse dark fabric was recovered from farmland here. This pot had a flat bottom and a piece missing. It was dated to either the Iron Age or Early Saxon period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 635 085 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF60NW |
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| Parish: | RUNCTON HOLME, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
About 1912. Found at Lane's Farm 60cm (2ft)' down in sand.
Handmade pot in coarse dark paste (11.4cm (4.5in) high, 8.9cm (3.5in) diameter at rim), flattened bottom; firing slightly buff-coloured towards base; undecorated; sherd missing. Probably Early Saxon.
(Above is R. R. Clarke's Saxon card. His Iron Age card for same find reads 'Rim sherd of Handmade jar max diam 3.5in, blackish ware, reddish in patches; Iron Age A or Early Saxon'. Pot perhaps reconstructed after this card made).
Given to KLM in 1912 having formerly been held by H. C. Peacock and previous to this Greenland Fishery Museum.
(Copy NCM card Material not checked.)
Grid reference obtained from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 22 October 1981.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Early Saxon - 800 BC to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 93. |
| --- | 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 - Iron Age. Runcton Holme. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Runcton Holme. |
| <S1> | Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map. |
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