Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3438 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Bronze Age pottery vessel and fragments |
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Summary
An Early Bronze Age pottery vessel and fragments of another were found in a field in about 1875.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 6532 1063 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF61SE |
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| Parish: | WORMEGAY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Found in about 1875 on local patch of gravel in field south of Tottenhill (West Briggs. E. Rose NAU) church nearest to road. Type B2 Beaker, 9.1cm (3.6 inches) high and fragments of another beaker. (S1) called Tottenhill, (S2) Tottenhill.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
British Museum register says 1.2m (4 feet) deep, 320m (350 yards) south of church.
E. Rose (NAU).
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
| --- | Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 620; Fig 114. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 61 SE 2. |
| --- | 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 - Neolithic. Wormegay. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Fox, C. 1925. On Two Beakers of the Early Bronze Age Recently Discovered in South Wales: With a Record of the Distribution of Beaker-pottery in England and Wales. Archaeologia Cambrensis. Vol LXXX pp 1-31. p 27. |
| <S2> | Publication: Kendrick, T. D. and Hawkes, C. F. C. 1932. Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931. p 25. p 101; Pl VIII.3. |
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