NHER 5997 (Monument record) - Iron Age burials

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Summary

Two Iron Age burials, together with Iron Age pottery fragments, worked flints and animal bones, were found during road widening works in 1956. One was of a female, the other of an infant.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL98NE
Civil Parish ROUDHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

27 July 1956. Found during road widening 26 July 1956. Excavation NCM.
Two Iron Age A burials. Fragmentary female skeleton and child found in grave 1.5m (5 feet) long (head to west) 1.2m to 1.5m (4 feet to 4 feet 9 inches) below modern surface.
Infilling contained two fragments of Iron Age A pottery, flint flakes, charcoal and animal bones. One arm raised to head, knees bent.
Press cuttings (S1), (S2) and report on human remains (S3) in file.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

  • --- Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Other Archaeological Excavations 1956. Norfolk Research Committee Bulletin. Series 1 No 9 (for 1956) p 2.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Roudham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 NE 27.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Serial: 1956. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 3. p 4.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1956. Iron Age skeleton found at Roudham. 31 July.
  • <S2> Newspaper Article: The Times. 1956. Iron Age skeleton found in Norfolk. 1 August.
  • <S3> Unpublished Document: Wells, C. P. B.. An Iron Age Inhumation from Roudham, Norfolk.
  • FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 11 2016 12:00PM

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