NHER 4404 (Find Spot record) - Iron Age pottery sherds and animal bones

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Summary

In 1862 a number of Iron Age cattle bones and pieces of an imitation Gallo-Belgic Ware vessel were found in a gravel pit in Wereham. The exact location and circumstances of this discovery are not known.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	WEREHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1862. In gravel pit.
Quantity of cattle bones.
Imitation Gallo-Belgic ware, black micaceous with pattern (17.8cm (7in) diameter) with imitation potter's mark. Kick in centre (see for comparison (S1)).
Find held by NCM, Beloe Collection (NWHCM : 1908.22 ).
Probably dating to AD 40-60. See (S2), (S3), (S4) and (S5).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

It is suggested in (S6) that this pottery vessel may be from the gravel pit in which a Mr Parrott had recovered a number of Iron Age loomweights - NHER 4403.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 August 2018.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF87259 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Wereham.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> 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. Pl XX.6-7.
<S2> SNF5017 Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. No 378.
<S3> SNF8078 Publication: Rye. 1916.
<S4> SNF1600 Monograph: 1917. Glastonbury Lake Village.. Vol II, p 498. p 498.
<S5> SNF1971 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCVI pp 1-113. pp 102-103.
<S6> SNF1677 Article in Serial: Williams, J. F. 1929. An Early Site at Stoke Ferry. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXIII pp 16-18. p 17.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Object Types (2)

ANIMAL REMAINS (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Wereham (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Aug 9 2018 5:00PM