Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3023 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Neolithic hearths and Neolithic finds |
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Summary
Excavation of hearths in a gravel hollow in 1959 recovered Neolithic pottery fragments, flint flakes and charcoal. The site has since been destroyed by quarrying and is now covered by Sparham Pools.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0756 1789 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01NE |
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| Parish: | SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
February 1959. Excavation.
A hollow in gravel containing superimposed hearths, located about 46m (50 yards) southeast of barrow number 1, was cut by a mechanical excavator. The remainder of the features were excavated on 26 and 27 February 1959 by R. R. Clarke and D. R. Howlett (NCM). Iron Age pottery, flint flakes, and charcoal were recovered. There was no distinction between the material from the upper and lower layers in the hollow. Brief mention in (S1) and also recorded in (S2).
The Iron Age pottery is in fact Neolithic Mildenhall Ware.
A. Gregory (NAU).
The pottery has been reidentified as Early Neolithic Grimston Ware.
See (S3) and (S4).
F. Healy (NAU), January 1985.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HEARTH (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
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 - Neolithic. Sparham. |
| <S1> | Serial: 1959. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1959. No. 6. p 5. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 01 NE 28. |
| <S3> | Article in Monograph: Healy, F. 1984. Farming and Field Monuments: the Neolithic in Norfolk. Aspects of East Anglian Pre-History. Barringer, C. (ed.). pp 77-140. pp 89, 92, 97; Fig 5.2. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Healy, F. 1984. Recent Finds of Neolithic Bowl Pottery in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt I pp 65-82. |
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