NHER 4733 (Find Spot record) - Pottery bowl and pear-shaped bottle of possible Roman date
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | OXBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1929. Found in bank of river Wissey. 1.6 km above Stoke Ferry bridge.
Pear shaped bottle with flat everted rim, slight cordon at base of neck. Hard light grey ware with traces of brownish colour coating 15cm to 18cm high Roman form resembles 3rd to 4th century pewter jugs and bottles and suggests late date. Found with dark grey coarse bowl, both in Cambridge University Museum of Anthropoloy and Ethnography. Published (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Found in bank of River Wissey. [2].
Bowl of height 107cm, diametre of mouth 13cm. Handmade with flat base, bulging sides and slightly thickened lip, coarse rather soft brownish grey ware undecorated. [3]. Unknown date. Cetainly pre-Medieval but might be early Iron Age or Anglo Saxon conceivably Neolithic.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF99172 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Oxborough.
- --- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Oxborough.
- --- SNF87260 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Stoke Ferry.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 79 NW 1 [2].
- <S1> SNF1747 Photograph: 1931. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. vol.XXXI p.152 plate.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (5)
- POT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Unknown date)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
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Record last edited
Jul 5 2016 10:17AM