NHER 3763 (Find Spot record) - Beaker pottery
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF71NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | EAST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1835. Stray Find.
Found in brickworks on east side of parish:
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age complete Beaker pottery vessel. See rubbing of decoration (S1).
Type A. High rimmed globular type, light brown ware ornamented with fingernail pattern between horizontal lines and in two bands of lozenges, 8" [20cm] high, 5 1/2" [13.9cm] diameter, 5 1/2" [13.9cm] across mouth.
Held by Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1894.76.607). Ex Fitch Collection, ex Ipswich Museum.
This object is figured in (S2) and (S3), being incorrected listed as being from West Winch in the former.
Also noted in (S4)-(S6) and amongst the Beaker finds listed in (S7) and (S8).
Information from (S9) and museum records.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 June 2018.
The information about this object coming from a brickyard is supplied by (S10), which also adds that 'many shells of oysters, cockle, and pentunculus are found in digging earth for bricks, but not in a fossil state'.
Found in 1835 according to (S11).
E. Rose (NAU). Information from (S12).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 June 2018.
Brickyard located from tithe map by E. Rose (NAU) 28 June 1979.
Information from (S12).
Brick kiln also shown on (S13).
E. Rose (NLA), November 2001.
Associated Sources (15)
- --- SNF9192 Photograph: CM 1158-.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF94208 Illustration: [Unknown]. [Unknown]. Rubbing of decoration on a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Beaker pottery vessel.
- <S10> SNF755 Publication: 1842. Collectanta Norfolciensis.
- <S11> SNF48274 Monograph: Bryant, J.. 1900. Norfolk Churches..
- <S12> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S13> SNF4947 Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.
- <S2> SNF5915 Monograph: Eller. 1861. Memorials of East Winch.. p 19 wrongly calls West W.
- <S3> SNF4274 Documentary Source: Various. Drawings, engravings and etchings, including numerous portraits, maps, etc, collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk" 1810-1847. Add MS 23024-23052. Vol XXV; f.105 (Add MS 23048).
- <S4> SNF1426 Publication: 1910. CANCM. CANCM. p.33. p 33.
- <S5> SNF6083 Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 26.
- <S6> SNF2034 Article in Serial: 1940. [unknown]. Cambridge Archaeological Society Collection. Vol XXXIX, p 50.
- <S7> SNF4263 Publication: Abercromby, J. 1912. A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods. Vol 1. Pl X; Fig 91.
- <S8> SNF5088 Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 525; Fig 777.
- <S9> SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Winch (East).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (2)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
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Record last edited
Sep 13 2018 8:31PM