Record Details

NHER Number:6826
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age pottery sherds

Summary

Agricultural activity in the early 1970s resulted in the discovery of a number of sherds of Bronze Age pottery, thought to represent more than one vessel.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2714 3471
Map Sheet:TG23SE
Parish:TRUNCH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1970 or 1971.
Rim sherd of collared urn found in bulldozed hedge bank

1972.
Pottery sherds from at least one other urn found.
All in NCM 1972.
E. B. Green (NCM).

1970. [1]
Two rim sherds, cord decoration. Found after ploughing. More found 1972.
T. Clough (NAU).

1972. [2]
Sherds of overhanging urn rim/base ?more than one pot.
Same site as rim sherds from another pot found 1970. Found after ploughing.
T. Clough (NAU).

See file for further details.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. Nos 971, 972.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Trunch [3].
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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