Record Details
NHER Number: | 6013 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Possible Iron Age and Bronze Age cemetery |
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Summary
In 1953, ploughing turned up Iron and Bronze Age pottery fragments together with cremated human bone. This could mean that the area was in use as a cemetery during those periods.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 9696 8663 |
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Map Sheet: | TL98NE |
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Parish: | BRIDGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1953. Bronze Age sherds ploughed up near Iron Age A sherds and cremated human bones (A possible urnfield).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
One sherd only in box.
E.B. Green (NCM).
Monument Types
- CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CREMATION (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CEMETERY (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- CREMATION (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 NE 4. |
--- | 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. Bridgham. |
--- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Bridgham. |
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