NHER 2524 (Monument record) - Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL69NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
About 1928 to 9. From bed of River Wissey between Stoke Ferry and Northwold at south end of Herringay Drove.
Neolithic perforated sandstone axe. (Letter C. F. Tebbutt to O. G. S. Crawford. Find in Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (CUMAE)? See Cambridge University Reporter, 14 February 1928 Annual Report. Hemispherical bronze bowl (Iron Age type). Iron Age sherds also found on sand below 2.5m (8 feet) of peat. Beaker fragments foound in same stretch. CUMAE. (S1), (S2) ? In Hawkes in Crawford Festschrift.
Skeletons. Letter C. F. Tebbutt to O. G. S. Crawford. CUMAE?.
(S3), (S4).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Ordnance Survey card confirms skeletons, axe in CUMAE.
R.J. Rickett (NAU), 29 March 1990
Associated Sources (9)
- --- SNF99173 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Human Skeletal Remains (HSR). Stoke Ferry.
- --- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Stoke Ferry.
- --- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Stoke Ferry.
- --- 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. TL 69 NE 4.
- <S1> SNF1722 Article in Serial: 1929. [unknown]. Cambridge Archaeological Society Collection. Vol XXX, pp 110-1.
- <S2> SNF1971 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. p 94.
- <S3> SNF8400 Unpublished Document: Tebbutt, C.F.. [unknown].
- <S4> SNF1707 Article in Serial: 1928. Recent Events. Antiquity. Vol 2 No 6 pp 228-232. p 231.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (6)
- PERFORATED OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- VESSEL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Undated)
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Record last edited
Nov 19 2025 8:24AM