NHER 10315 (Monument record) - Bronze Age cremation

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Summary

A Bronze Age cremation found inside a pottery urn, and Roman pottery has also been found at this site, which is close to the Early Saxon cemetery NHER 1011.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG30SW
Civil Parish BERGH APTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1932.
Roman sherds found.

1948.
Bronze Age and Roman sherds found.
Donated to Norwich Castle museum (NWHCM : 1948.188).

1950.
Bronze Age cremation, and Roman sherds found.
Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (Roman sherds accessioned under NWHCM : 1948.188, cremation urn as NWHCM : 1951.1).

See full details and copies of photographs in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 27 February 1991.

The prehistoric pottery sherds from this site are the subject of a short report by A. Lawson in (S1). The sherds found in 1948 are the remains of at least three vessels and include a rim sherd that is probably from a Middle Bronze Age Biconical Urn. The Biconical Urn The urn found in 1950 is illustrated and identified as a Middle Bronze Age Biconical Urn. The Biconical Urn sherds from this site are also described and illustrated in (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 14 July 2018.

  • --- Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk 1949-54. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXI Pt IV pp 395-416. p 398.
  • --- Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
  • --- Newspaper Article: 1950. Eastern Daily Press. 11 December.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Bergh Apton [2].
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Bergh Apton [2].
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SW 12.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Monograph: Green, B. and Rogerson, A. 1978. The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Bergh Apton, Norfolk: Catalogue. East Anglian Archaeology. No 7. p 107; Fig 111.
  • <S2> Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. 1980. The evidence for Later Bronze Age settlement and burial in Norfolk. Settlement and Society in the British Late Bronze Age. Barrett, J. and Bradley, R. BAR British Series 83 pp 271-293. No 3; Fig 5B-C.
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • POT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Jul 15 2018 3:41PM

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