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Title: Knocker Collection - Norwich Castle Museum And Art Gallery [Go to resource]
Description: Thetford ware vessels and sherds, range of objects connected with textile manufacture Collection of material excavated by G.M. Knocker at a series of sites south of the rivers in Thetford in the late 1940s and 1950s in advance of town development. The material is mostly Saxo-Norman in date and, together with material excavated in the 1960s, was instrumental in deepening understanding of the importance of Thetford in this period. The collection includes the site archive of over 250 boxes of material, mainly tens of thousands of sherds from Thetford ware pottery kilns and kiln dumps, representing the largest and most varied group of Thetford pottery ever excavated. Other significant industries represented by the collection are metalworking, woodworking, textile manufacture and leather working. These finds indicated the crowded nature of urban Thetford in the early 10th century to the early 12th century; Thetford was at its peak at this time and was one of the six largest towns of England. The collection includes pottery sherds of other wares, including St. Neot's and Stamford wares, and the entire pottery collection is the largest and most varied group of Saxo-Norman pottery found in East Anglia. Within the collection are also domestic items; worked bone tools, dress ornaments, skates and flutes; copper alloy jewellery; iron knives; iron fittings for timber buildings; horseshoes and harness fittings; querns and glass linen smoothers. The collection also contains a few Romano-British finds. Group Captain Guy Knocker had been an RAF pilot in WWII and was interested in Old English literature and Viking lore. On his retirement he became an archaeologist and directed various excavations, amongst them a series in Thetford in the late 1940s and 1950s, and published a book about Anglo-Saxon Thetford. Format: 250 artefacts together with 250 boxes of site archive material Temporal: Saxon 400-1066
Romano-British 0-500Source: Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections FAX: +44 (0)1603 493623 Telephone: +44 (0)1603 493625 Identifier: oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7145 Format: 250 artefacts together with 250 boxes of site archive material Go to resource More Like this...
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