Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8531 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Beaker pottery |
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Summary
Fragments of Beaker pottery found when holes were dug for new electricity pylons in 1958.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 440 155 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41NW |
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| Parish: | ROLLESBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1958.
Most of a bell beaker (a) and 2 sherds of another bell beaker (b) found while digging post-holes for an overhead power line, about 1.5m (5ft) down in sand in an arable field. 3rd pylon to east from 1/4m west-southwest of Rollesby Church.
a. decorated with herringbone comb impressions.
b. decorated with comb impressions.
E.B. Green (NCM).
Map calls 'B' Beaker and Rusticated ware.
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
| --- | Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 4. |
| --- | Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. Nos 584; Fig 392. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 41 NW 6. |
| --- | 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. Rollesby. |
Related records - none
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