A “Handled Beaker” from Bodney, Norfolk

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Bodney Warren, in the neighbourhood of which the skull and beaker illustrated were found in the summer of 1930, though on a direct line between Thetford and Swaffham, is one of the most remote places in Norfolk. The parish is thinly populated, and the warren and neighbouring “brecks” occupy a considerable part of a tongue of hard land, about 2½ miles long and one mile wide, overlooking on the west, north and north-east the marshy valleys of the River Wissey and a tributary. The “Smugglers Road,” a track-road more or less parallel to the Peddars Way, runs straight towards Swaffham through the middle of the area, but tails off into a cattle track as it approaches two fords at the north end of the parish. The present main roads pass through more populous villages on the far side of the river valleys.