NHER 19555 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flint scatter and ?Mesolithic and ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG11NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FELTHORPE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1983. Stray Find.
Found when working on land:
Concentration of Neolithic worked flints including many scrapers, 1 cutting edge of polished axe (S1), cores, flakes and 1 Early Neolithic leaf shaped arrowhead.
Most productive of all Beck Farms sites.
Identified and compiled by E. B. Green (NCM) 2 September 1983.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2014.
April 1984. Fieldwalking.
Area extended to northwest:
1 Early Neolithic crude flint laurel leaf point, possibly a roughout failure.
5 Neolithic flint scrapers, 3 flakes with slight signs of retouch or use, 1 blade-like flake with retouched edges, and 1 crude bifacial pebble chopper.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) 24 May 1984 and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 30 April 1984.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2014.
April 1984. Fieldwalking.
Further fieldwalking finds, as before:
1 ?Mesolithic worked flint.
Early Neolithic flint leaf arrowheads.
2 Neolithic flint scrapers (one very large), 1 flake, 1 broken axehead, 1 reused axehead
1 ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age broken flint, possibly failed Beaker dagger or leaf point.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and W. Milligan (NCM) December 1984.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2014.
Associated Sources (3)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (13)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- CHOPPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LAUREL LEAF (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DAGGER (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
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Record last edited
Mar 5 2018 4:05PM