Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10811 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bronze Age hearth and multi period pottery sherds |
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Summary
Sometime before 1963 a Bronze Age hearth was recorded in this location. Ploughing in the area during 1988 recovered a collection of pottery sherds dating from the Late Saxon to post medieval period including fragments of Thetford Ware.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0272 8773 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08NW |
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| Parish: | QUIDENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1963.
Context 2 at above grid reference.
Bronze Age hearth noted by [1].
See (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Autumn 1988.
Context 1 general scatter, ploughed surface.
Six sherds Thetford type ware.
Sixteen sherds unglazed medieval.
One sherd late medieval/Trans.
Finds held by NCM.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU).
D. Gurney (NAU) 21 November 1988.
Monument Types
- HEARTH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 08 NW 12. |
| --- | 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. Quidenham. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Apling, H. 1931. Bronze Age Settlements in Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VI Pt IV pp 365-370. p 365. |
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