NHER 36569 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints and medieval seal matrix

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Summary

Metal-detecting here in 2001 and 2008 recovered a potentially Late Upper Palaeolithic blade-like flint flake; a number of Mesolithic/Early Neolithic and Early Neolithic worked flints and a medieval copper alloy seal matrix.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG22NW
Civil Parish FELMINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre Summer 2001. Metal-detecting and fieldwalking.
Found at [1]:
6 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blades and blade-like flakes and 4 retouched blade-like flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file. These discoveries were reported in (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 19 December 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 June 2014.

October- November 2008. Metal detecting.
Found in area centred at [2]:
1 ?Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blade-like flake (retouched and utilised during a subsequent period).
1 Early Neolithic flint side and end scraper and 1 blade.
1 medieval copper alloy seal matrix.
Flints identified by P. Robins (NCM) and seal matrix by S. Ashley (NLA). See list and descriptions in file.
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 10 June 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 June 2014.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 2002. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 149-162. p 150.
  • FLAKE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC? to 10001 BC?)
  • BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
  • SEAL MATRIX (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 18 2023 5:30PM

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