NHER 2748 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric flint implements, Thetford Warren

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Summary

A number of prehistoric flint implements have been recovered from Thetford Warren over the years. These include scrapers, blades, arrowheads, knives and an adze. The finds date from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age and they are now held in various museum collections across the country.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Unprovnanced flint from Thetford Warren.

W. G. Clarke's surface Neolithic site 18 - in Thetford Museum 1954.
British Museum (PRBA) has seventy-seven Neolithic flints: twenty-nine round scrapers, one hollow scraper, one disc, seventeen blades, three arrowheads. All part of the Sturge Collection and formerly in possesion of W. G. Clarke. Information from (S1). NCM has petit tranchet derivative that was formerly part of the Halls Collection. Also arrowheads, adze and barbed and tanged arrowhead. Ashmolean has waisted axe, polished axe and knives - some of which are plano-convex.
E. Rose (NAU).

Neolithic arrowheads and axes from Thetford Warren were exibited at a meeting of the the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia (PSEA) in 1910, by Mr H. D. Hewitt (S2). Other notable flint finds recorded as coming from Thetford Warren include a harpoon barb exhibited to the PSEA by H. H. Halls in 1912 (S3). A combined saw and end scraper from Thetford Warren was presented to the Thetford Corporation Museum by J. Spinks in 1925 (S4). A discoidal flint knife from Thetford Warren is listed in (S5) as being held (at this time) by the Pitt Rivers Museum. Information from (S6). See NHER 2752 for description of a double-hollow scraper found on Thetford Warren.
P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2013.

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Thetford.
--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Thetford.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF1746 Publication: Smith, R. A. 1931. The Sturge Collection: an illustrated selection of flints from Britain bequeathed in 1919 by William Allen Sturge. p 126.
<S2> SNF1456 Article in Serial: 1911. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt I (for 1909-1910) pp 109-121. p 117.
<S3> SNF87888 Article in Serial: Halls, H. H. 1913. Flint Harpoon-Barbs. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol I Pt III (for 1912-13) p 306.
<S4> SNF1681 Article in Serial: 1925. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol V Pt I pp 87-88. p 87.
<S5> SNF5144 Article in Serial: Clarke, J. G. D. 1929. Discoidal Polished Flint Knives - Their typology and distribution. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VI Pt I (for 1928) pp 40-54. p 50.
<S6> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 SW 12.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (9)

ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 7 2016 11:12AM