Record Details

NHER Number:7988
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Beaker pottery vessel

Summary

The base of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery Beaker vessel was found in a gravel pit at this location in 1957.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 2454 1715
Map Sheet:TG21NW
Parish:FRETTENHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1957. Stray Find.
Found in removing topsoil at gravel pit of Frettenham Lime Co Ltd.
Base of pottery, Beaker, probably Bell Beaker.
(S1) by D.R. Howlett in file.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

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

---Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
---Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 533.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 NW 16.
---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. Frettenham.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Howlett, D.. 1959. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age pottery vessel.. Card. 1:1.

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