NHER 2411 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age/Early Saxon pot
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF60NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | RUNCTON HOLME, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
About 1912. Found at Lane's Farm 60cm (2ft)' down in sand.
Handmade pot in coarse dark paste (11.4cm (4.5in) high, 8.9cm (3.5in) diameter at rim), flattened bottom; firing slightly buff-coloured towards base; undecorated; sherd missing. Probably Early Saxon.
(Above is R. R. Clarke's Saxon card. His Iron Age card for same find reads 'Rim sherd of Handmade jar max diam 3.5in, blackish ware, reddish in patches; Iron Age A or Early Saxon'. Pot perhaps reconstructed after this card made).
Given to KLM in 1912 having formerly been held by H. C. Peacock and previous to this Greenland Fishery Museum.
(Copy NCM card Material not checked.)
Grid reference obtained from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 22 October 1981.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF1971 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 93.
- --- SNF87261 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Early Saxon. Runcton Holme.
- --- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Runcton Holme.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF52553 Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (2)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
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Record last edited
Jul 2 2018 12:12PM