Record Details

NHER Number:9027
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic pottery sherd

Summary

In 1949 the rim sherd of a Neolithic pottery vessel was recovered by ploughing at this location.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 995 939
Map Sheet:TL99SE
Parish:SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1949. North of Spong Lane near trig point 133.
Rim sherd of Neolithic A pottery with oblique fluting on rim and below. Rightly described as Neolithic B in Piggotts Book.
Drawing (S1) in the Illustration Library.
Ploughman alleges other sherds.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 99 SE 7 [2].
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Article in Serial: Healy, F. 1984. Recent Finds of Neolithic Bowl Pottery in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt I pp 65-82.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Shropham.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Howlett, D.R.. 1955. Drawing of a Neolithic pottery shard.. Card. 1:1.

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