Monument record 3101/0/2 - Beaker Pit, Harringworth Quarry

Features revealed in 1975 during quarrying identified a small pit containing nearly 200 beaker pot sherds and a flint flake.

{1} Features revealed in 1975 by quarrying. Irregular Beaker pit 0.5m x 0.93m in diameter x 0.18m deep. A ginger-brown stoney fill containing burnt stones and about 190 beaker pot sherds as well as a flint flake.

{2} A small pit containing 180 beaker pot sherds from not less than ten vessels.

{3} Neolithic and Beaker pits (SP 934977) on the S side of the Welland valley, on limestone at 90 m. above OD. Ironstone-working has revealed a small pit containing 180 sherds of Beaker pottery which came from not less than ten different vessels.

{4} Two pits. One of the pits contained 190 sherds of decorated pottery including one sherd of cordoned ware. The other pit contained 7 sherds of collared urn and two beaker sherds with combed lozenage decoration.

<1> Jackson, D., 1978, Neolithic and Bronze Age Activity in the Harringworth Area, p.6-7 (checked) (Article). SNN38332.

<2> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, p.183 (checked) (Journal). SNN169.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.188/Site 13 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> Gibson, A M, 1982, Beaker Domestic Sites: a Study of the Domestic Pottery of the Late Third and Early Second Millennia BC in The British Isles, p. 168 (Report). SNN115346.

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