NHER 4400 (Monument record) - Possible site of medieval well and Bronze Age ceramic vessel, Wereham Green

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Summary

At sometime prior to 1892 a Bronze Age pottery vessel was recovered from Wereham Green. Additional research also shows that during the medieval period the Green had a medieval well, and later in 1849 Abraham Sewell built a spring here.

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Location

Map sheet	TF60SE
Civil Parish	WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Pre 1892. On Wereham Green.
Handled food vessel 10.2cm (4in) high. Decorated with two lines of bird-bone impressions below rim.
Held by Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography. (Wakes Green bequest).
Photographed by NCM.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3).

Location of the Green noted by E. Rose (NAU) 25 May 1977. It is small enough to give an eight-figure reference.

By coincidence this is also the site of St Margarets Well (Ordnance Survey 25in).
E. Rose (NAU).

Reference (S4) in file notes a monument over a spring somewhere near this site built by Abraham Sewell in 1849.
Is this connected with the well?
E. Rose (NLA) 15 January 1999.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Wereham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
--- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
<S1> SNF4263 Publication: Abercromby, J. 1912. A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its Associated Grave-Goods. Vol 1. Pl XXII; Fig 297.
<S2> SNF6083 Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 38; Pl Vib.
<S3> SNF1924 Article in Serial: 1936. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol XXXVI, p 145.
<S4> SNF47220 Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 1999. Village fact file. 14 Janauary.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (1)

POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Oct 26 2016 4:11PM