NHER 3377 (Find Spot record) - Possible Iron Age or Roman quern
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF61NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BAWSEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1939. Stray Find.
Found in sandpit:
1 Roman beehive quern with iron circlet and handles. Made of Hertfordshire conglomerate (puddingstone). No associated objects (?Iron Age possibly much later).
Formerly held by Greenland Fisheries Museum (King's Lynn), present location unknown.
Details received from P. L. K. Schwabe.
Information from (S1).
An exact provenance for this object is not given on (S1). It is however likely that this is the same object as a puddingstone quern noted on (S2), which is listed as having been found at TF 675 195 - which is the site of a former quarry and therefore probably the "sandpit" noted on (S1). This source of this information is given as (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 15 March 2016.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Bawsey.
- <S2> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 61 NE 29.
- <S3> SNF8027 Article in Serial: Rudge, E. A. 1965. Interim Report on the Distribution of the Puddingstone Quern. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. Vol 1 Pt 4 pp 247-249. p 248.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 25 2019 10:55AM