Record Details

NHER Number:12434
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age cup

Summary

A Bronze Age pottery handled cup found before 1939.

Images - none

Location

Parish:HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

'A few years before' 1939. In Hockwold Fen.
Found 2.4m (8ft) deep in digging with spade.
Handled cup. Broken into several pieces, later restored but finder did not keep all the sherds.
(S1) and (S2) in file.
Exact findspot never ascertained.

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

---Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 555.
---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. Hockwold-cum-Wilton.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Photograph: NCM. [unknown].
<S2>Correspondence: Various. 1960. Letters.

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