NHER 2337 (Find Spot record) - Early Saxon glass vessel from Grimston Heath

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Summary

Part of an Early Saxon glass vessel found in 1937.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF72SE
Civil Parish GRIMSTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1937. 548m (600 yds) southeast of Old Belt, Grimston Heath.
Fragment of a rim of Frankish glass cone beaker (compare with Caister) often with plain bodies and series of spiral threads at rim.
Type IIIb in (S1). (examinerd by Harden on 30 October 1950.)
(S2) states that it 'cannot be earlier than 5th century, more likely to be after 450 AD than before it. It might of course be 6th century'.
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Gimston.
  • --- 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 3.
  • --- Serial: Norfolk Research Committee. 1950. Glass Vessels in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Archaeological Newsletter. Vol 3 No 2 pp 21-27. p 23.
  • <S1> Monograph: Harden, D.B.. 1956. Dark Age Britain.. p 149. p 149.
  • <S2> Publication: Rudemackel. [unknown]. 147,pl.51 p.297, Bonner J.
  • VESSEL (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 24 2025 10:05AM

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