NHER 14656 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints

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Summary

Mesolithic and later prehistoric worked flints including a microlith, arrowheads and two plano convex knives.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SE
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre 1979. Stray Find.
A range of finds were recovered by the late Frank Curtis in this field, which he designated F106. The information on these finds was collated by F. Healy who examined the Curtis' catalogue and part of his collection. A proportion of the finds were listed in (S1), with a much more comprehensive list appearing in (S2). The worked flints found included:
1 Neolithic transverse petit tranchet derivative arrowhead.
2 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age plano convex knives.

According to (S2) the Curtis catalogue also lists:
1 Neolithic arrowhead.
1 Neolithic leaf arrowhead
2 'slug knives' - presumably the plano-convex knives listed above.
1 'harpoon barb' - probably a Neolithic transverse arrowhead.
E. Rose (NLA) 23 November 1993.

Before 1981. Stray Find.
Two worked flints from this field were part of the collection held [1]:
1 Mesolithic microlith (Coll. No. 131). Obliquely blunted point.
1 Neolithic transverse arrowhead (Coll. No. 61) found at TL 695 922 (south-east corner of field). Petit tranchet derivative arrowhead of Clarke's type C.
Arrowhead previously recorded as NHER 17535.
Identified by F. Healy (NAU), August 1981. See (S2).
F. Healy (NAU) 8 September 1981. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 November 2013.

29 November 2008. Metal detecting
3 Early neolithic worked flints and a medieval or post-medieval lead weight
See list in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 February 2009

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. NHERs 14656; NHER 17535.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Thesis: Healy, F. 1978. The Neolithic in Norfolk.
  • <S2> Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78. Microfiche.
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • WEIGHT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2021 7:46AM

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