Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10318 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age cremation |
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Summary
A Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead was found on the surface of a field in 1971. In 1988 a farmer found a Bronze Age cremation urn. Excavation of the area recovered a second associated Bronze Age pottery vessel.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3053 0212 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | ALPINGTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1971. Stray Find.
Surface find:
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
T. Clough (NCM), 1971.
Information from (S1). This discovery was reported in (S2).
December 1988. Excavation.
Salvage excavation.
Bronze Age inverted collared urn containing cremation, and inverted small coarse vessel.
See published report (S3) for further detail. The results of this work are summarised in (S4) and were also noted in local press article (S5).
The collared urn itself is now in the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.53).
J. Wymer (NAU), 26 June 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 April 2019.
The published report (S3) adds bronze fragments in cremation, and spread of charcoal to the south.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 February 1992.
Monument Types
- CREMATION (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- POT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SW 18. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Photograph: EMV 1-3. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Alpington. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1971. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1971. No 18. p 3. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Wymer, J. J. 1990. A Cremation Burial at Alpington. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 71-74. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 98. |
| <S5> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988. Bones clue to ancient burial site. 31 December. |
Related records - none
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