NHER 18260 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic and Bronze Age flint artefacts

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Summary

Fieldwalking in this area during 1977-82 recovered a variety of Neolithic and Bronze Age flint artefacts. They included over sixty flakes, two possible hammerstones, a core, scrapers, blades and part of a polished axehead.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

1977-80. Surface of drilled field. Finder's site 248a.
Sixty-six heavy flakes.
Two hammerstones?
One core.
One chunk.
Twelve scrapers.
Three blades.
Two chunks on brown flint.
One polished axe fragment.
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU).
A. Lawson (NAU), 10 September 1980.
Typed by J. Wymer (NAU), 29 November 1983.

June 1982. Details as above.
Neolithic scrapers and other worked flint.
Finds held by NCM.
W. Milligan (NCM), 23 June 1982.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • 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)
  • HAMMERSTONE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

Feb 26 2014 12:17PM

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