NHER 14945 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period prehistoric worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL78NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1936-1941. Stray Find.
Found R. F. Parrott in old O.S Field 233 ("Back of farm, Fengate"):
1 Early Neolithic leaf arrowhead and 1 laurel leaf.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Listed in Parrott Catalogue and (at least for a time) held by Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1961.142).
Seen and identified by F. Healy and listed in (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 22 May 1979. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.
Pre 7 April 2003. Fieldwalking.
Small area at southern edge of field examined by [1]:
3 undatable prehistoric flint scrapers, 1 borer, 8 notched pieces/concave scrapers, 3 miscellaneous retouched pieces and 4 unmodified flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list, descriptions and finder's map in file.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.
Pre 9 April 2003. Fieldwalking.
Strip at western edge of field examined by [1]:
2 Mesolithic flint blade cores. See drawings (S2).
6 undatable (probably later) prehistoric flint cores, 1 hollow scraper, 1 notched flake, 3 miscellaneous retouched flakes, 4 ?scrapers on thermal flakes and 23 unmodified flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list, descriptions and finder's map in file.
These discoveries were noted in (S3).
P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF6350 Monograph: Healy, F. 1996. The Fenland Project, Number 11: The Wissey Embayment: Evidence for pre-Iron Age Occupation. East Anglian Archaeology. No 78. Appendix (microfiche).
- <S2> SNF92051 Illustration: Robins, P. 2003. Drawings of two Mesolithic flint blade cores from Weeting with Broomhill. Paper. 1:1.
- <S3> SNF88007 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2003. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk in 2003. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt III pp 563-573. p 564.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (5)
Object Types (15)
- BORER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- HOLLOW SCRAPER (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- LAUREL LEAF (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- NOTCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
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Record last edited
May 18 2020 8:00AM