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Record Details

NHER Number:	2322
Type of record:	Find Spot
Name:	Neolithic pottery

Summary

Three fragments of Neolithic pottery were found on a terrace. At the foot of the terrace were worked flint blocks and mining tools.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:	TF 7684 2053
Map Sheet:	TF72SE
Parish:	GAYTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February 1936. Found in rabbit burrow. North of Gaythorpe to Great Massingham Road and southeast of Drink Hill 60m (200 feet) OD.
Three sherds Windmill Hill pottery on terrace at foot of which are flint blocks, humanly worked and mining tools. Black ware rolled rim with flint grits in paste.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

See (S1). Found by P. L. K. Schwabe (NRC).
E. Rose (NLA).

Monument Types

BUILDING (Unknown date)

Associated Finds

ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---	Article in Serial: Sainty J. E., Watson, A. Q. and Clarke, R. R. 1938. The First Norfolk Long Barrow. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVI Pt III pp 315-329. p 316.
---	Article in Serial: 1939. [unknown]. Cambridge Archaeological Society Collection. Vol XXXVIII, p 165. p 165.
---	Article in Serial: 1940. [unknown]. Cambridge Archaeological Society Collection. Vol XXXIX, p 46. p 46.
---	Newspaper Article: Lynn Advertiser. 1936. [unknown]. 28 February.
---	Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 19.
---	Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---	Article in Serial: Healy, F. 1984. Recent Finds of Neolithic Bowl Pottery in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt I pp 65-82.
---	Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Gayton.
---	Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>	Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.