Record Details

NHER Number:21809
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Complete Early Bronze Age pot (West Winch, poorly located)

Summary

It is recorded that before 1861 a complete Early Bronze Age pot was recovered from the parish of West Winch. The exact date and location of this discovery are unclear.

Images - none

Location

Parish:WEST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 1861. 'Found in the parish of West Winch'.
Complete Early Bronze Age Beaker. (No other details given). Plate in (S1). Stated by informant to be identical to drawings of long necked beakers in Clarke's corpus (copy to come).
E. Rose (NAU), 16 October 1985.

Copy of drawing (S2) in file. Dimensions given as 9 1/4 inches (23cm) high, 5 1/2 inches (14cm) across mouth, 3 inches (7.5cm) across bottom, 'now in possession of Hon. Secretary of Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society' (1861).
E. Rose (NAU), 21 October 1985.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Monograph: Eller, G.. 1861. Memorials, archaeological and ecclesiastical, of the West Winch manors..
<S2>Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

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