Record Details

NHER Number:13923
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age pottery

Summary

In 1978 Iron Age pottery sherds were recovered from a possible pit revealed during gravel quarrying.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8996 1648
Map Sheet:TF81NE
Parish:BEESTON WITH BITTERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

July 1978.
Atlas Aggregates gravel pit.
In east face - from fill of pit cut into natural gravel?
Iron Age hand made sherds including 3 rims and several fineware body sherds with high burnish. 3rd to 2nd century BC?
Also tap slag.
NCM 1978.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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