NHER 10318 (Monument record) - Bronze Age cremation
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | ALPINGTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1971. Stray Find.
Surface find:
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
T. Clough (NCM), 1971.
Information from (S1). This discovery was reported in (S2).
December 1988. Excavation.
Salvage excavation.
Bronze Age inverted collared urn containing cremation, and inverted small coarse vessel.
See published report (S3) for further detail. The results of this work are summarised in (S4) and were also noted in local press article (S5).
The collared urn itself is now in the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.53).
J. Wymer (NAU), 26 June 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 April 2019.
The published report (S3) adds bronze fragments in cremation, and spread of charcoal to the south.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 February 1992.
Associated Sources (10)
- --- SNF9697 Photograph: EMV 1-3.
- --- 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 30 SW 18.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
- <S1> SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Alpington.
- <S2> SNF2449 Serial: 1971. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1971. No 18. p 3.
- <S3> SNF8769 Article in Serial: Wymer, J. J. 1990. A Cremation Burial at Alpington. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 71-74.
- <S4> SNF2910 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 98.
- <S5> SNF3876 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988. Bones clue to ancient burial site. 31 December.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (4)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- POT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2019 10:42PM