NHER 4404 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age pottery sherds and animal bones

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Summary

In 1862 a number of Iron Age cattle bones and pieces of an imitation Gallo-Belgic Ware vessel were found in a gravel pit in Wereham. The exact location and circumstances of this discovery are not known.

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Location

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Civil Parish WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1862. In gravel pit.
Quantity of cattle bones.
Imitation Gallo-Belgic ware, black micaceous with pattern (17.8cm (7in) diameter) with imitation potter's mark. Kick in centre (see for comparison (S1)).
Find held by NCM, Beloe Collection (NWHCM : 1908.22 ).
Probably dating to AD 40-60. See (S2), (S3), (S4) and (S5).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

It is suggested in (S6) that this pottery vessel may be from the gravel pit in which a Mr Parrott had recovered a number of Iron Age loomweights - NHER 4403.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 August 2018.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Wereham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> 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. Pl XX.6-7.
  • <S2> Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. No 378.
  • <S3> Publication: Rye. 1916.
  • <S4> Monograph: 1917. Glastonbury Lake Village.. Vol II, p 498. p 498.
  • <S5> Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. pp 102-103.
  • <S6> Article in Serial: Williams, J. F. 1929. An Early Site at Stoke Ferry. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXIII pp 16-18. p 17.
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Aug 9 2018 5:00PM

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