Record Details

NHER Number:7830
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age beaker and multi-period pottery sherds

Summary

In 1958 parts of a necked Bronze Age beaker were recovered from this location. Later, in 1963, excavations in the same area recovered early medieval and post medieval pottery sherds.The cropmarks of a possible Bronze Age ring ditch at this location have been identified in the past, although this is uncertain.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 1547 1403
Map Sheet:TG11SE
Parish:TAVERHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1958. Found in Park December.
Necked Beaker in fragments. Sketch (S1) in file. Small dark circle shows on RAF aerial photgraph 4024 of April 1946. Cropmarks of a possible ditch round barrow.
Finds held by NCM.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

1963. One of four small depressions excavated by W. F. Edwards and C. G. Rye adjacent to site where Neolithic Beaker was found 1958.
Early medieval sherds and post medieval sherds.
Finds held by NCM.
E. B. Green (NCM).

Sketch and letter in file.

August 2010. Norfolk NMP.
The assessment of the aerial photographs for this area revealed no convincing sign of a ring ditch at this vicinity.
S. Horlock (NMP), 18 August 2010.

Monument Types

  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 5.
---Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 617.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 11 SE 23.
---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. Taverham.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Taverham.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

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