NHER 13856 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flints, medieval and post medieval pottery sherds

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Summary

In 1978 a number of medieval and post medieval pottery sherds were recovered from the surface of this field, these concentrated on a slightly raised area which displayed darker soil than the surrounding field. Further north a number of worked flints were recovered including ?Mesolithic flakes, Neolithic flakes and a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead. In 1989 a Neolithic brown stained polished flint axehead was also recovered.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TM18NW
Civil Parish	WINFARTHING, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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May-June 1978. Stray Finds.
Scatter on ploughed surface:
Medieval pottery sherds (shelly wares, green glazed Grimston ware, Langerwehe stoneware, Transitional glazed ware).
Post-medieval pottery sherds (lead-glazed earthenware, stoneware, Westerwald).
A. Rogerson (NAU), 1978.

4 July 1978. Site Visit.
Site visited by A. Rogerson. Pottery found to be concentrated on grid reference at centre of spread, a slightly raised area with darker soil.
A. Rogerson (NAU), 1978.

Before 1980. Stray Find.
Same site, finds recovered on surface after subsoiling and drilling (mostly on area rather further north than above finds, but not all):
?Mesolithic small flint flakes.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Retouched Neolithic flints flakes.
Some pieces perhaps natural.
Identified by A. J. Lawson (NAU) 13 May 1980.
W. Milligan (NCM), May 1980. Information from (S1).

1989. Stray Find.
Found at [1]:
1 Neolithic brown-stained polished flint axehead.
See sketch (S2).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU).
W. Milligan (NCM), 20 February 1990.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S2> SNF97833 Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1990. Sketch of a Neolithic polished flint axehead from Winfarthing. Paper. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)

Object Types (6)

FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)