NHER 2758 (Find Spot record) - Probable Roman pottery sherds, Thetford Warren

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Summary

Around 1890 the Thetford Field Club IV found a collection of colour-coated pottery sherds. They believed that the sherds were of Iron Age date but a Roman date is far more likely.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Thetford Field Club IV 167: 'Some pottery belonging to the Iron Age was found last year (around 1890) on Thetford Warren. It bore a splendid representation of a stag's head, the body unfortunately being defaced'
?Anglo Saxon date - R. R. Clarke (NCM).
?Colour-coated is Roman - E. Rose (NAU).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

This sounds like a Roman colour-coated beaker with barbotine decoration, and most probably a 'hunt cup' in Nene Valley Colour-Coated Ware.
D.Gurney (NLA) 9 May 2007

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF8403 Article in Serial: [unknown]. The Field Club. Vol IV, p 167.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (3)

POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 13 2014 11:18AM