Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8119 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age urn |
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Summary
A Bronze Age cinerary urn and a smaller 'pygmy' cup were destroyed when a ditch was dug around Catton Park in 1920 or 1921.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2302 1208 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21SW |
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| Parish: | OLD CATTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Found 1920 or 21.
'Pygmy cup' in ill-fired grey ware (6cm, 2 1/4 ins maximum diameter) with three perforations in side found in association with much larger urn (Bronze Age cinerary urn) destroyed in Catton Park on south side of Hall in making ditch around garden. Found 1.8m (6 feet) deep.
See (S1), (S2), (S3) and (S4).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 SW 13. |
| --- | 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 - Bronze Age. Catton. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1922. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol III Pt IV (for 1921-22) pp 607-624. p 608. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 7 December. |
| <S3> | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. CM 38. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Clarke, R.. 1962. Drawing of a Bronze Age 'pygmy' cup.. Paper. 1:1. |
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