NHER 4372 (Monument record) - Two Bronze Age pits
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF64SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
February 1974.
Cliff edge.
Two pits visible in cliff edge.
One V-cut, about 1m deep by 1.50m wide cut in chalk with soil and lens of chalk.
Other square-cut, about 2.5m wide by 2m deep, filled with grey-brown soil and lenses of chalk rubble.
Bronze Age pottery reported in fill.
Visited in February 1974 by C.J.S. Green.
Information from (S1). This discovery was reported in (S2) and the pottery is also noted in (S3).
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Hunstanton.
- <S2> SNF2500 Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 5.
- <S3> SNF2643 Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. J. 1980. The evidence for Later Bronze Age settlement and burial in Norfolk. Settlement and Society in the British Late Bronze Age. Barrett, J. and Bradley, R. BAR British Series 83 pp 271-293. No 9.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- POT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Jul 15 2018 4:49PM