Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8744 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Post medieval brick kiln/brick works and multi period finds |
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Summary
Prior to 1911 a number of Neolithic flint tools, Iron Age pottery sherds and Bronze Age sword were recovered from here. A map of 1836 shows that a Suffolk style brick kiln was sited here along with a coal store and building erected in 1828. Although the kiln is no longer evident the other two structures do survive.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 910 023 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SW |
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| Parish: | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Brickyard. Finds from yard - pre 1911. Found in pocket of dark coloured earth.
Neolithic small flint axe, chipped knife, part-polished axe fragment, scraper, unworked flakes and chips.
See source (S1).
Held in 1947 and before by S. S. George Collection.
Three Iron Age sherds including one of Corky Ware [1] and medieval sherds.
Red deer antler with cuts - found in claypit (Not in NCM?). See (S2)
Fragment of leaf-shaped bronze sword 'near brickyard' (Not NCM?).
Information from cards by R. R. Clarke (NCM) - objects not checked.
Brickyard itself now disused.
Marked on 1836 1in Ordnance Survey. Suffolk type kiln with firing chamber floor level with grates (very unusual, like South Cove, Suffolk). Coal store remains and a building dated 1828.
Information from Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records.
E. Rose (NAU) 15 May 1983.
Monument Types
- BRICK KILN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BRICKWORKS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUILDING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- WORKED OBJECT (Undated)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | 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. Saham Toney. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Saham Toney. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Saham Toney. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Saham Toney. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1912. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt II (for 1910-11 and 1911-12) pp 233-241. p 235. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 90 SW 5 [2]; TF 90 SW 22. |
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