NHER 30751 (Monument record) - Flint working site

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Summary

A flint working floor was discovered in 1991/2. Undisturbed, it contained many worked flints, including cores, end scrapers and an arrowhead. The site is either late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Pot boilers were found nearby.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL79NE
Civil Parish CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

November 1991 to February 1992.
Large numbers of worked flint from an undisturbed working floor.
Cores, end scraper and finely made oblique arrowhead.
Probably Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age.
Identified by P.Robins (NCM), see descriptions and notes in file.
Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1999.1.12.17).
W.Milligan (NCM) 20 June 1994.

11 November 1991.
To west of above find:
Pot boilers 15cm deep 12x15m sq. On silt at bottom of stripped peat.
Prehistoric 3 worked flints.
Details in file.
W.Milligan (NCM) 14 November 1991.

11 September 1997. W.Milligan (NCM) suggests that these finds really came from
site 33166.
E.Rose (NLA) 27 November 1997.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • CORE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
  • TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Apr 1 2022 11:05AM

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