NHER 2333 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic and Beaker pottery from Grimston Heath

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Summary

Fragments of Neolithic and Beaker pottery found in the 1930s.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF72SE
Civil Parish GRIMSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1936.
Grimston Heath. About 274m (300 yds) from Little Massingham Belt (not named on Ordnance Survey), about 274m (300 yds) south of main Grimston to Great Massingham Road.
2 small sherds Holdenhurst Ware (one a rim). In thickness colour and dcoration identical with Stow Bardolph material (rusticated ware B. Green (NCM)).
Information from [1].
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

1937.
Beaker sherds on Grimston Heath close to Little Massingham Belt near Holdenhurst rusticated ware site.
Information from [1].
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

  • --- Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 544.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Grimston.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 21.
  • POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 24 2025 10:05AM

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