NHER 334 (Monument record) - Possible Bronze Age cremation
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
East of Quebec Road, south of Wolfe Road.
1826. Found in centre of six conical hollows arranged in a circle on tableland around 100 yds (91m) east of Ketts Castle (St Michaels Chapel).
'British interment'. Pot containing fragments of human bone found near St Leonard's on site of 'British Village', 1832. (Probably same as above).
D. Turner. [1]
'Fragments of an urn containing bones found on Mousehold Heath 1828 around ft (30cm) beneath the surface'. Accession book 122.30.
Discarded by J. Reeve around 1910.
R. R. Clarke (NCM) described the pot as probably a Late Bronze Age evolution of a Middle Bronze Age collared urn.
(S1) may refer to the Gargytt Hills (NHER 9619) when he writes of 'British Village' on Gas Hill from the number of British barrows south of this place, it is highly probable that this part of the county was thickly peopled' shows tumulus at Gas Hill on Map 1.
1976. No extant mounds.
Information A. J. Lawson (NAU).
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)
Object Types (2)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 701 BC?)
- POT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 701 BC?)
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Record last edited
Jul 14 2018 7:12PM