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Description: | Collection of excavated and collected material from over 600 sites in Norwich. There are objects from all archaeological periods although there is little material from the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. Prior to the existence of Norwich, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic activity in the area is represented by many worked flints from Great Melton. Just to the south of Norwich, Caistor St. Edmund (Venta Icenorum), was the site of a Roman town and has yielded many objects. The collection is particularly strong in objects from the Middle Saxon to Post-Medieval period, reflecting the importance of Norwich itself in this period and which are fundamental in understanding medieval urbanism. This part of the collection is dominated by the series of nearly forty Norwich Survey excavations conducted in the 1970s.
Late Saxon objects, Medieval domestic objects, Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery, Bronze Age hoards, | Format: | 2000 artefacts together with 2000 boxes of site archive material and paperwork from excavations since 1979 | Subjects: | Archaeological sites Urban development Archaeology Archaeological objects Archaeological excavations | Temporal: | Medieval 1066-1500 Saxon 400-1066 Bronze age 2500BC- 700BC Romano-British 0-500 Stone age - pre 2500BC | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7149 | Format: | 2000 artefacts together with 2000 boxes of site archive material and paperwork from excavations since 1979 | Go to resource |
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