NHER 32285 (Find Spot record) - Multi-period worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1996 recovered 126 worked flints, including a ?Mesolithic flaked axe fragment and four scrapers of possible Neolithic date. The remaining pieces, including flakes, a core, and various retouched tools, were not closely datable, but potentially later Bronze Age

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG03NE
Civil Parish THORNAGE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1996. Fieldwalking finds.
?Mesolithic flaked flint axehead fragment. See drawing (S1).
4 ?Neolithic flint end scrapers.
79 Late Prehistoric (possibly later Bronze Age) flint flakes, 1 core, 14 miscellaneous retouched flakes, 19 scrapers, 6 notched pieces, 1 spurred piece and 1 flake knife.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see list and notes in file. These discoveries were reported in (S2).
H. Geake (NCM), 5 November 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2014.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Robins, P. 1996. Drawing of a ?Mesolithic flaked flint axehead fragment from Thornage. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1998. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1997. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt I pp 181-192. p 182.
  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC?)
  • END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
  • BORER (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • CORE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • NOTCHED FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)

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Record last edited

May 11 2022 8:00AM

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