NHER 5067 (Find Spot record) - Roman urn

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Summary

A complete Roman urn was found in 1921.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish HILBOROUGH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

1921 or before. Cobbler's Pit (R.R. Clarke (NCM) says perhaps same as Cobble Pit near Watton to Brandon main road) Complete urn found, later broken.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3).

Ordnance Survey maps do not mark either name, and (S4) has no such name on them. Could this possibly be the same as site NHER 5050, which was on the main road before the battle area was created?
E. Rose (NAU)

Is this the same as greyware 'flagon', wheel made, grooves round shoulder, lip of neck deformed in firing, otherwise complete except for sherds broken off near base and replaced with glue, about 45cm (18") high, now at Merton Hall? It was found in a junk room there and said by the present Lord Walsingham's father to be a local find. No record of any other complete Roman pot found in area.
Seen by E. Rose (NAU) 30 April 1982.

(S5) states the urn came from the largest of the Sparrow Hill barrows (NHER 4055).
This would seem to be a confusion.
E. Rose (NAU) 17 June 1985.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Hilborough.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: 1921. Eastern Daily Press. 6 August.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Clarke, W. G. 1919-1927. Norfolk Notes.
  • <S3> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S4> Map: 1842. Bodney Tithe Map.
  • <S5> *Verbal Communication: Lord Walsingham. 1985. [unknown]. 13 June.
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 3 2013 3:20PM

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