NHER 1135 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age beaker, prehistoric flints and multi-period pottery sherds

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Summary

In 1974 workmen digging a pipe trench here found part of an Early Bronze Age beaker. Subsequently, in 1983, a number of medieval and post medieval pottery sherds were recovered from the same site, along with prehistoric flints and fragments of post medieval clay pipes.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM29NW
Civil Parish TASBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

August 1974. Stray Find.
Found by workmen in pipe trench.
Approximately one S1/N2 Beaker. See drawing (S1).
Information from member of the public [1].
See (S2).
A. Lawson (NAU) November 1974.

January/February 1983. Over surrounding field surface.
Green-glazed Grimston, late medieval/transitional, medieval sherds, post medieval sherds, clay pipes; some
struck flint. (Four flakes, one blade. Identified by F. Healy (NAU)).
Finds held by NCM, formerly by member of the public [2].
W. Milligan (NCM) 2 March 1983.

Report in file.

  • --- Photograph: HY26-31 (Trench), 30-37.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Tasburgh.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 29 NW 28.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 8.
  • --- Slide: Various. Slide.
  • <S1> Illustration: Lawson, A. 1974. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery Beaker vessel. Film. 2:1.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Lawson, A. J. 1975. A Beaker from Tasburgh, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVI Pt II pp 183-184.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 18 2018 3:21PM

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