NHER 5364 (Find Spot record) - Beaker vessel

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Summary

A Beaker pottery vessel, originally identified as a food vessel and subsequently reidentified as a collared urn. This find is associated with a number of Beaker occupation sites in the immediate area.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1965.
Food vessel sherd found on surface about (850 yds) southwest of Blackdyke Farm.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

1988.
Reidentified as collared urn.
F. Healy (NAU) 19 September 1988.

This site is associated with a number of other Beaker sites in the immediate area. The surface finds and excavated areas seem to be grouped in distinct clusters, although it is difficult to establish the exact relationship between them. Although the features recorded are not enough to imply a permanent settlement, the finds recovered indicate that Beaker activity in this area was more than a temporary occupation site.
See (S1) and (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 9 March 2006

  • --- Publication: Longworth, I. H. 1984. Collared Urns: Of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. No 942.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Hockwold-cum-Wilton.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Bamford, H. 1982. Beaker Domestic Sites in the Fen Edge and East Anglia. East Anglian Archaeology. No 16.
  • <S2> Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78.
  • POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Record last edited

Sep 23 2016 9:20AM

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