Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2524 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age finds |
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Summary
A Neolithic sandstone axehead, Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery fragments, an Iron Age copper alloy vessel and human skeletal remains were recovered from the bed of the River Wissey in the late 1920s.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 698 978 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL69NE |
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| Parish: | STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
About 1928 to 9. From bed of River Wissey between Stoke Ferry and Northwold at south end of Herringay Drove.
Neolithic perforated sandstone axe. (Letter C. F. Tebbutt to O. G. S. Crawford. Find in Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (CUMAE)? See Cambridge University Reporter, 14 February 1928 Annual Report. Hemispherical bronze bowl (Iron Age type). Iron Age sherds also found on sand below 2.5m (8 feet) of peat. Beaker fragments foound in same stretch. CUMAE. (S1), (S2) ? In Hawkes in Crawford Festschrift.
Skeletons. Letter C. F. Tebbutt to O. G. S. Crawford. CUMAE?.
(S3), (S4).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Ordnance Survey card confirms skeletons, axe in CUMAE.
R.J. Rickett (NAU), 29 March 1990
Monument Types
- INHUMATION (Unknown date)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Undated)
- PERFORATED OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- VESSEL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 NE 4. |
| --- | 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. Stoke Ferry. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Stoke Ferry. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Human Skeletal Remains (HSR). Stoke Ferry. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1929. [unknown]. Cambridge Archaeological Society Collection. Vol XXX, pp 110-1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 94. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Document: Tebbutt, C.F.. [unknown]. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: 1928. Recent Events. Antiquity. Vol 2 No 6 pp 228-232. p 231. |
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