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| HHER Number: | 108 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | LATE IRON AGE POTTERY, PURWELL, HITCHIN |
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Summary
Fragments of a late Iron Age butt beaker, and part of an amphora, found separately during construction of housing
| Grid Reference: | TL 204 297 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL22NW |
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| Parish: | North Hertfordshire (Non Civil Parish), North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 49 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 49 AD)
Full description
A late Iron Age butt beaker and two amphorae found on Purwell housing estate: Hitchin Museum (Acc 1590-1) <1>. The OS Record states that 'Hitchin Museum have no knowledge of the present location of the above material' <2>. The NGR is for the middle of the housing estate, built pre-1939 and post-1945.
The Hitchin Museum archaeological material was transferred to Letchworth Museum in 1976. The Letchworth Museum records give no.1590 as 'fragments' of butt beaker, and no.1591 as a single amphora of a yellow-brown fabric, missing its rim and handles; this was 'dug up on Purwell Lane Housing Estate while laying drains in 1948' and given to Hitchin Museum in 1950 by the UDC Clerk of Works <4>.
<1> Morris Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SHT7108.
<2> OS Records (Index). SHT8223.
<3> National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Report (Hertfordshire), RNO 2347 p47 (Unpublished document). SHT9440.
<4> Information from Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, North Hertfordshire Museum, Email, 4/4/2012 (Unpublished document). SHT3611.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Unpublished document: Morris Gazetteer. |
| <2> | Index: OS Records. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: National Monuments Record. NMR Monument Report (Hertfordshire). RNO 2347 p47. |
| <4> | Unpublished document: Information from Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, North Hertfordshire Museum. Email, 4/4/2012. |
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