NHER 17325 (Find Spot record) - Medieval stone mortar

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Summary

A medieval stone mortar was dredged up by a steam trawler about forty five miles east of Great Yarmouth in 1925.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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Civil Parish NORTH SEA, -, NORFOLK

Map

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1925.
About Latitiude 52 degrees, 35' north and longitude 2 degree, 50' east.
About forty five miles east of Great Yarmouth.
Dredged up by steam trawler Ennerdale out of Grimsby.
Stone mortar, 13th/14th century, of Dunning's type 2, Caen Stone.
Base shows wear of pestle indicating that object had had considerable use, and thus suggests a shipwreck rather than a loss overboard.
British Museum (Medieval and Later Antiquities) OA 308.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 1 June 1981.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Clarke, H. & Carter, A.. 1977. Excavations in King's Lynn 1963-1970.. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph. No 7.
  • MORTAR (VESSEL) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 1 2007 11:49AM

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