NHER 1640 (Monument record) - Early Bronze Age inhumation

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Summary

A crouched human burial, possibly dating to the Early Bronze Age, was found in the early 1940s. The burial was destroyed before it could be examined, but no pottery or weapons were found.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF73NE
Civil Parish DOCKING, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1942 to 1943. Found 2.1m down.
Possibly Early Bronze Age crouched burial found in ballast pit, while excavating with mechanical digger which destroyed it.
No sign of pottery or weapon.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Pit near road junction about 730m west of Sunderland Farm.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

May 2000.
The above information needs to be checked.
The small wood which contains the site was seen from the outside alone by E. Rose (NLA) in May 2000.
The buildings shown on (S1), now derelict, are clearly war time concrete huts presumably connected with the airfield. Would they have been built around a ballast pit?
Or were they built subsequently?
E. Rose (NLA) 23 May 2000.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Docking.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 73 NE 1.
  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 2000. Ordnance Survey 1:10000 (revised 2000).
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Unknown date)

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Record last edited

Mar 29 2016 9:58AM

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