Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6263 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age cremation, burnt flints and pottery finds |
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Summary
Late Bronze pottery fragments and burnt flints in a dark patch of soil were revealed by ploughing in 1963. Another patch of earth nearby contained cremated human bones.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1181 4301 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SW |
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| Parish: | WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1963.
?Late Bronze Age sherds and pot boilers from dark patch revealed by ploughing to 23cm 9 inches depth. Dark patch about 46cm (18 inches) to 60cm (2 feet) diameter in the middle of a patch of yellow sandy subsoil about 4.6m (15 feet) to 6.1m (20 feet) in diameter. Dark patch was darkened sand; very dark. Another patch contained cremated bones identified as human by C.P.B. Wells.
E. B. Green (NCM).
Information from donor.
1999. For the pipeline see NHER 34702.
D. Gurney (NLA), 3 January 2001.
Monument Types
- UNASSIGNED (Unknown date)
- CREMATION (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT BOILER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. 1980. The evidence for Later Bronze Age settlement and burial in Norfolk. Settlement and Society in the British Late Bronze Age. Barrett, J. and Bradley, R. BAR British Series 83 pp 271-293. No 29. |
| --- | 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 - Bronze Age. Weybourne. |
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