NHER 3738 (Find Spot record) - Complete Beaker vessel and Roman pottery

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Summary

A small-necked Beaker period complete vessel with a 'blackish substance at the bottom of it' was found in a trench dug between two farm buildings. Some fragments of Roman pottery may also have been found here.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF71NW
Civil Parish GAYTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

April 1962. Stray Find.
Found when digging trench between two farm buildings at Great Farm, in sandy soil, not below 2 feet [60cm] deep:
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age small necked Beaker pottery vessel, 3 1/4 inches [8cm] high, with lozenge decoration. "Some blackish substance in bottom of it" but nothing else found. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3) and it is amongst the objects catalogued in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 June 2018.

1980.
[1] states that farmer at Great Farm showed him a box of Roman sherds which he said were found at the same time, despite above statement.
E. Rose (NAU), 24 November 1980. Information from (S5).

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1962. Drawing of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age small necked Beaker pottery vessel. Card. 1:1.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Gayton.
  • <S3> Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 3.
  • <S4> Publication: Clarke, D. L. 1970. Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 2. No 534.
  • <S5> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Jun 7 2018 6:49PM

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