NHER 9625 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric pot boilers, pottery sherds and saddle quern fragments

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Summary

In 1951, during the construction of a road on the housing estate here, a Bronze Age saddle quern, calcined flints and coarse pottery sherds of possible Middle Neolithic date (initially identified as Late Bronze Age).

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Map sheet	TG20NE
Civil Parish	THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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November 1951. Stray Find.
In dumps of soil north-west of Gargle Hill Plantation removed from topsoil in making new road for housing estate.
Saddle quern, calcined flints and sherds of coarse Late Bronze Age pottery, (S1). [1]
Compiled by R. R. Clarke (NCM).

The pottery is described in (S2) as being from the same plain bowl with a heavy inturned rim in a coarse, flint-tempered fabric. The rim is described as being without close parallels, although it is noted that similar examples occur in Middle Neolithic Peterborough Ware assemblages and "…the pot seems most likely to lie in this tradition".
P. Watkins (HES), 30 October 2024.

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Thorpe St Andrew.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NE 12.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF91371 Illustration: Unknown. 1951. Drawing of Bronze Age pottery fragments.. Film. 1:1.
<S2> SNF59203 Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk. pp 694-696.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (5)

POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Middle Neolithic - 3500 BC? to 2701 BC?)
QUERN (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
POT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
POT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

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Thorpe St Andrew (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Oct 30 2024 11:34AM