Record Details

NHER Number:4227
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Bronze Age pot

Summary

in 1835 a pottery beaker with rouletting and dating to the Early Bronze Age was recovered from 'Bardolph Fen'.

Images - none

Location

Parish:STOW BARDOLPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1835. Stray Find.
From 'Bardolph Fen':
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Beaker pot with rouletting.
Wisbech Museum 6 November 1835 from R. G. Townley, Sketch by Rudsdale (S1).
Information from (S2).

This object is amongst those listed in (S3), although its provenance is recorded as being 'Bardolph Fen', Wisbech. It is also noted in (S4).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 August 2018.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 50 SE 9.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Rudsdale. 1835. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Beaker pottery vessel. Paper. 1:2.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Stow Bardolph.
<S3>Article in Serial: Fox, C. 1925. On Two Beakers of the Early Bronze Age Recently Discovered in South Wales: With a Record of the Distribution of Beaker-pottery in England and Wales. Archaeologia Cambrensis. Vol LXXX pp 1-31. p 26.
<S4>Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 503; Fig 214.

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