NHER 8744 (Monument record) - Post medieval brick kiln/brick works and multi period finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF90SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Brickyard. Finds from yard - pre 1911. Found in pocket of dark coloured earth.
Neolithic small flint axe, chipped knife, part-polished axe fragment, scraper, unworked flakes and chips.
See source (S1).
Held in 1947 and before by S. S. George Collection.
Three Iron Age sherds including one of Corky Ware [1] and medieval sherds.
Red deer antler with cuts - found in claypit (Not in NCM?). See (S2)
Fragment of leaf-shaped bronze sword 'near brickyard' (Not NCM?).
Information from cards by R. R. Clarke (NCM) - objects not checked.
Brickyard itself now disused.
Marked on 1836 1in Ordnance Survey. Suffolk type kiln with firing chamber floor level with grates (very unusual, like South Cove, Suffolk). Coal store remains and a building dated 1828.
Information from Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records.
E. Rose (NAU) 15 May 1983.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF8808 Fiche: Exists.
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Saham Toney.
- --- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Saham Toney.
- --- SNF87263 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Saham Toney.
- --- SNF99172 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Saham Toney.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF5301 Article in Serial: 1912. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt II (for 1910-11 and 1911-12) pp 233-241. p 235.
- <S2> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 90 SW 5 [2]; TF 90 SW 22.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (9)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Undated)
- WORKED OBJECT (Undated)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 14 2016 2:00PM