Record Details
NHER Number: | 2414 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Early Anglo Saxon cremation urn (Runcton Holme, Stow Bardolph, poorly located) |
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Summary
It is recorded that before 1868 an Early Anglo Saxon cremation urn, containing human bones, was recovered in this parish. The exact location and nature of this discovery are unknown.
Images - none
Location
Parish: | RUNCTON HOLME, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| STOW BARDOLPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 1869. From gravel pit near Stow Bridge.
Urn with cremated bones.
KLM 1869 purchased by Captain William Bulwer from the Collection of Rev. G. H. Dashwood.
See (S1) (inaccurately links this with probable Middle Bronze Age urns found before 1852).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- CREMATION (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | 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 - Early Saxon. Runcton Holme. |
<S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1940. Norfolk in the Dark Ages, 400-800 A.D., Part II. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVII Pt II pp 215-249. p 242. |
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