Record Details

NHER Number:6014
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age pottery find

Summary

Half an Iron Age pot was dredged from the River Thet in 1953.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 9732 8597
Map Sheet:TL98NE
Parish:BRIDGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1953 on bank of River Thet 275m (300 yds) eastnortheast of Dairy Farm. Half of an Iron Age A pot with fingernail decoration on shoulder. Dredged from river Thet.
Dark grey paste with flints. Colour variable. Probably a stray from West Harling site. (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 NE 12 [2]; TL 98 NE 34.
---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 - Iron Age. Bridgham.
<S1>Article in Serial: Clark, J. G. D. and Fell. C. I. 1953. The Early Iron Age site at Micklemore Hill, West Harling, Norfolk, and its Pottery. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol XIX Pt 1 pp 1-40. p 32.

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