NHER 60562 (Find Spot record) - Animal bone found on Holme Beach
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF74NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOLME NEXT THE SEA, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
May 2013. Field visit.
Animal long bone found during geological walkover survey of Holme Beach. The finder reported that it was 'embedded vertically in the saltmarsh clay which underlies the peat layer' and provided an approximate location for the findspot.
The clays and silts on Holme Beach developed in mudflat and saltmarsh conditions from c.5900–4850 cal BC. The peat overlying the clays and silts formed in a back-barrier freshwater reed swamp and alder carr from c.2130–1770 cal BC (S1 and S2). This deposit sequence suggests the bone is either Mesolithic, Neolithic or Bronze Age in date.
D. Robertson (HES), 8 January 2015.
Associated Sources (2)
- <S1> SNF54540 Article in Serial: Brennand, M. and Taylor, M. 2003. The Survey and Excavation of a Bronze Age Timber Circle at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 1998-9. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 69 pp 1-84.
- <S2> SNF72711 Unpublished Contractor Report: Ames, J. and Robertson, D. 2009. The Archaeology of Holme Beach: An Archaeological Monitoring Survey of the Intertidal Zone, 2003-08. NAU Archaeology. 1444.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Mesolithic to Beaker - 6000 BC to 1700 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Mar 11 2021 2:19PM