NHER 15277 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flints and Roman artefacts

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Summary

Fieldwalking in this area during 1979 and 1983 recovered a variety of objects. Finds included Neolithic and Bronze Age worked flints, Roman pottery sherds, a Roman roof tile, a Roman copper alloy object and an undated whetstone.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG10NW
Civil Parish GREAT MELTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1979. Fieldwalking. Finder's site 234a.
Surface scatter.
Late 4th century Roman sherds (ten rims, one base, twelve body).
Whetstone, undated.
S. Margeson (NCM), 1979.

Spring 1979. Details as before.
Roman tegula fragment, sheet copper alloy fragment.
Eleven rimsherds, six body sherds, three bases, all Roman greyware.
Neolithic/Bronze Age flint - two cores, nine flakes, three blades, three scrapers.
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980

November 1983. Found in fieldwalking at TG 1252 0567.
Half a chipped grey flint axe, (S1).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU), December 1983.
W. Milligan (NCM), December 1983.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Unknown. 1983. Drawing of a Neolithic chipped grey flint axe fargment.. Paper. 1:1.
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • WHETSTONE (Undated)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 13 2018 11:27AM

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