NHER 19970 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic and Bronze Age flint artefacts

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Summary

During 1979-85 a large number of Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts were found at this site. They included a possible axehead, two polished axehead fragments and scrapers. A piece of an undated lava quern has also been collected.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

1979 to 1980. Surface of drilled field. Finder's site 238a.
Fifty large flakes. Five cores. One rough axe? Eight thin scrapers. Two fragments polished axes. One fragment lava quern.
Information from member of the public [1].
Identified and compiled by A. Lawson (NAU), 10 September 1980.
Typed by J. Wymer (NAU), 5 December 1983.

28 October 1985. Details as above.
Two more worked flints.
W. Milligan (NCM), 12 November 1985.

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

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Record last edited

Feb 26 2014 12:18PM

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