NHER 8531 (Find Spot record) - Beaker pottery

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Summary

Fragments of Beaker pottery found when holes were dug for new electricity pylons in 1958.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG41NW
Civil Parish ROLLESBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

March 1958.
Most of a bell beaker (a) and 2 sherds of another bell beaker (b) found while digging post-holes for an overhead power line, about 1.5m (5ft) down in sand in an arable field. 3rd pylon to east from 1/4m west-southwest of Rollesby Church.
a. decorated with herringbone comb impressions.
b. decorated with comb impressions.
E.B. Green (NCM).

Map calls 'B' Beaker and Rusticated ware.
E. Rose (NAU).

  • --- Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. Nos 584; Fig 392.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Rollesby.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 41 NW 6.
  • --- Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 4.
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 21 2016 1:02PM

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