Record Details

NHER Number:1599
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Bronze Age pot

Summary

A piece of Early Bronze Age pot with impressed twisted cord decoration was found in the churchyard before 1911.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7071 3647
Map Sheet:TF73NW
Parish:SEDGEFORD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 1911.
Middle Bronze Age pottery from churchyard with twisted thong decoration.
Note by R.R. Clarke (NCM) on (S1).

Pottery examined by F. Healy (NAU). One substantial rim fragment of collared urn with impressed twisted cord decoration; predominantly grog-tempered fabric. Listed in (S2). Probably Early Bronze Age rather than Middle Bronze Age.
See (S3).
F. Healy (NAU), 1987.

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.
---Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. No 969.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Sedgeford.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Map: NCM. NCM Record Map.
<S2>Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. No 969.

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