Record Details

NHER Number:6128
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Beaker pottery

Summary

Beaker pottery, found in 1937.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0215 4295
Map Sheet:TG04SW
Parish:BLAKENEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1937.
In Sandpit south southeast of Kettlehall Plantation 12 (Gallows Hill?).
'C' Beaker and fragments of another about 16cm high.
See (S1) in file.
See (S2).
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Before 1950.
Beaker found in sandpit on site of another found on the same site in 1934.
Accidently destroyed.
No sign of bones.
Sandy soil.
Probably rusticated.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

No sand pit on this location 1977, but a small caravan site.
Perhaps infilled.
E. Rose (NAU)

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

---Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. Nos 508-509; Figs 636-637.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 04 SW 8.
---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. Blakeney [2].
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Clarke, J.G.D.. [unknown].
<S2>Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Beaker pot.. Paper. Unknown.

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