NHER 14896 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic and Bronze Age flint tools (Surlingham, poorly located)

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Summary

In 1915 a collection of Neolithic and Bronze Age flint implements was recovered from an unknown location in Surlingham. Finds included a tanged and barbed arrowhead, a leaf-shaped knife, two long flakes and a polished axehead.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish SURLINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Exact site unknown.
Neolithic flint and 'eoliths'.
'[1] exhibited (October 18 1915) a series of implements found by him and [2] at Surlingham, Norfolk. These included a rechipped sub-Crag implement, and rechipped portion having an ochrous patina, a tanged and barbed arrowhead, a leaf-shaped knife, a small cone with two planes, two long flakes apparently of Cissbury type, and a polished axe with a hinge fracture at one end' - see (S1).

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 NW 25.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: 1916. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt II (for 1915-16) pp 320-325. p 320.
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)

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Record last edited

Jun 15 2018 9:33AM

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