Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5510 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age pottery finds (King's Lynn, poorly located) |
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Summary
About twelve fragments of Bronze Age pottery were found during railway construction at an unknown date.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Found in making railway.
Bronze Age pottery sherds. Overhanging rim ware. About twelve fragments.
Held by Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (CUMAA).
Information from (S1).
This is probably the Collared Urn from 'nr King's Lynn' listed in (S2) and recorded as being held by the CUMAA.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 26 November 2015.
The CUMAA collections catalogue lists in the Cole Ambrose Collection 'Fragments of large overhanging rim cinerary urn. Incised ornament', found 'near King's Lynn', catalogue reference Z 15019.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 26 July 2018.
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: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. King's Lynn. |
| <S2> | Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. No 960. |
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