Record Details

NHER Number:4819
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Multi - period pottery finds

Summary

Iron Age and Roman pottery fragments were found in 1948.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7939 9594
Map Sheet:TL79NE
Parish:DIDLINGTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1948. 274m (300 yds) northeast of ruins of Church.

Roman coarse pottery including mortar rim (see drawing) base of colander and omphalos base. Preserved at Mundford School.
Examined by R. R.Clarke (NCM) 1948.

1948. One sherd of horizontally furrowed decoration found 274m (300 yds) northeast of Colveston Church. Black paste burnished surface. Probably Early Saxon but might be Iron Age 'ABC'.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

A. Gregory (NAU) says Iron Age; shoulder of handmade jar or pedestal urn.
E. Rose (NAU), 21 May 1985.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 79 NE 8 [2].
---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 - Roman. Didlington.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Didlington.

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