NHER 31360 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period prehistoric worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking between 1994 and 1995 recovered a range of worked flints, including a ?Mesolithic/Early Bronze Age blade core; a Neolithic axe/adze and adze fragment; a ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age end scraper and an undatable prehistoric end scraper and flakes. In 1994/5 two Neolithic flint axes were found, together with a selection of other flints dating from the Mesolithc to the Bronze Age.

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Map sheet	TG13NW
Civil Parish	BODHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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December 1994/January 1995. Fieldwalking.
1 undatable prehistoric flint end scraper, 1 retouched flake and 2 long narrow flakes.
1 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint conical blade core.
1 Neolithic flaked adze/axe (S1) and 1 adze fragment (S2).
1 ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint end scraper.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and descriptions in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA), 9 June 1995. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 July 2014.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF76939 Illustration: Robins, P.. 1995. Drawing of a Neolithic flint axe/adze.. Paper. 1:1.
<S2> SNF76940 Illustration: Robins, P.. 1995. Drawing of a Neolithic flint adze fragment.. Paper. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (4)

Object Types (7)

END SCRAPER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 3001 BC?)
ADZE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
END SCRAPER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 1501 BC?)

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Record last edited

Jul 24 2014 2:50PM