NHER 2523 (Find Spot record) - Beaker and Bronze Age pottery finds

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Summary

Pieces of Beaker pottery and possibly other Bronze Age pottery fragments were found before 1928. The exact nature and location of this discovery are unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69NE
Civil Parish METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre 1928.
Beaker fragments from River Wissey between Stoke Ferry and Northwold at south end of Herringay Drove.
So R.R. Clarke (NCM)'s (S1), but on (S2) he marks site as some way west of this drove, as at grid references above. Note on (S2) by R.R. Clarke (NCM) also adds 'and other Bronze Age wares'.

These sherds were donated to the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The collection includes a Collared Urn sherd that is listed in (S4) and described in the museum's records as a fragment of an "overhanging rim urn" (1928.523).

'Collected by Lethbridge and Tebbutt?'
Added to (S1) by R.R. Clarke (NCM) at later date.

Material and references not checked.
Site visited by F. Healy (NAU), July 1983, but no finds apparent.
E. Rose (NAU).

Fragments of seven types of Beaker pottery.
Information from (S3).
R.J. Rickett (NAU) 29 March 1990.

  • --- Article in Serial: 1928. Recent Events. Antiquity. Vol 2 No 6 pp 228-232. p 231.
  • --- Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. Nos 604-610.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Stoke Ferry.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Stoke Ferry.
  • --- Unpublished Document: 1928. Annual report of Cambridge Faculty Board..
  • <S1> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S2> Map: NCM. NCM Record Map.
  • <S3> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 NE 1.
  • <S4> Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. No 977.
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Nov 19 2025 8:24AM

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