NHER 28407 (Find Spot record) - Palaeolithic flint flake and possible Early Saxon brooch fragment

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Summary

Fieldwalking here in 1989 recovered a Palaeolithic flint flake and a part-melted possible Early Saxon cruciform brooch fragment.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00SE
Civil Parish WICKLEWOOD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

November 1989. Fieldwalking.
Found by [1] north-east of Crownthorpe Farm:
1 Palaeolithic primary flint flake, rolled.
1 Early Saxon ?part-melted bow of ?cruciform brooch.
Flints identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and metal object identified by W. Milligan (NCM).
These discoveries were reported in (S1). Both objects were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.50.10). The Palaeolithic flake is also described on (S2).
W. Milligan (NCM) 21 November 1989. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 February 2014.

Within cropmark site NHER 21720.

  • <S1> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1992. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1991. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt III pp 362-370. p 363.
  • <S2> Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. Wicklewood.
  • FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

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Record last edited

May 29 2020 9:58AM

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