NHER 19746 (Find Spot) - ?Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age worked flints and undatable pottery

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Summary

Fieldwalking between 1979 and 1986 recovered a range of prehistoric worked flints and a single undatable pottery sherd. The worked flints include a ?Palaeolithic flake, a Mesolithic tranchet axehead, a brown Neolithic piece and Neolithic/Bronze Age flakes, blade and a borer.

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

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Spring 1979. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] on surface of drilled field (finder's Site No. 238b).
7 undatable prehistoric flint flakes.
1 ?Palaeolithic pointed flake.
Finds retained by [2].
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU) and compiled by A. Lawson (NAU) 10 September 1980 and J. Wymer (NAU), 5 December 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.

Autumn 1979. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] (details as above):
11 Neolithic/Bronze Age flakes, 2 blades and 1 borer.
Identified by A. Lawson (NAU), 19 October 1980 and compiled by NCM, November 1983.
Information from (S1).
Finds probably amongst a collection of objects from this site that were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.39).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.

28 October 1985. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] (details as above):
1 Neolithic brown flint.
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU).
Probably amongst a collection of objects from this site that were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.39).
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.

June 1986. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] (details as above):
More prehistoric worked flints.
1 undatable abraded pottery sherd.
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM).
Information from (S1).
Finds probably amongst a collection of objects from this site that were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.32.39). According to the museum's records the worked flints in this collection include a Mesolithic tranchet axehead.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2014.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)

Object Types (9)

FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POT (Unknown date)

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Record last edited

Feb 13 2018 11:34AM