Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3428 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Medieval pot |
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Summary
An almost complete medieval pot of Blackborough End-type. The pot was found in 1940 during the construction of an air raid shelter and was previously been incorrectly identified as dating to the Beaker or the Middle Saxon period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6623 1474 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | MIDDLETON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1940. Stray Find.
Found at Blackborough End, whilst making air-raid shelter in cottage garden:
Small round-bottomed handmade pot 2 3/4" [6.9cm] high, 3" [7.6m] diameter. Hard paste light brown colour. See drawing (S1) and photograph (S2).
Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1957.405). Associated pottery lost.
Suggested as Middle Saxon by R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Information from (S3) amd (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 June 2018.
1979.
Pot re-examined by K. Wade (NAU) and S. Dunmore (NAU), who say it is not Middle Saxon but were unable to date it.
Grid reference corrected by finder and shown to R. Silvester (NAU) November 1982.
Finder insists he was told by "an archaeologist from Norwich Museum" that the pot was of Beaker date. But this is impossible - F. Healy (NAU).
Compiled by R. Silvester (NAU) 13 November 1982. Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 June 2018.
1992.
Pot in NCM is certainly medieval, a diminiative version of Blackborough End-type round based, everted rim cooking pot/jar.
Identified by W. Milligan (NCM) and A. Rogerson (NLA).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 17 September 1992.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. 1957. Drawing of a medieval small Blackborough End-type pottery cooking pot/jar. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| <S3> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Late Saxon. Middleton. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 61 SE 1. |
| <S5> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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