Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34486 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable Beaker inhumation |
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Summary
A complete Beaker pot was found during grave digging at Sheringham Cemetery. As it was found intact it is probable that it came from a Beaker period inhumation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1465 4295 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG14SW |
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| Parish: | SHERINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1993 or before. Sheringham Cemetery. Found in digging grave in cemetery extension at 1.8m (6 feet) deep.
East Anglian type Beaker (see description in file) 'full of soil'.
Found intact; H. Bamford suggests it is evidence of an inhumation.
Reported to NCM, March 1993.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 May 1999.
Monument Types
- INHUMATION (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. 1993. Sketch of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Beaker pottery vessel. Paper. 1:1. |
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