NHER 37109 (Find Spot record) - Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flints and Roman pottery sherd
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL78NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
2002. Fieldwalking.
Various finds recovered from several areas, including a number of prehistoric worked flints.
Found in Area 3 (In field south of NHER 14950 and just north of Pepper Hill Tumulus (NHER 5616), TL 7877 8825 approx.):
1 Late Neolithic discoidal flint knife. Almost circular (diameter 75-80mm) disc of flint with fairly corticated thermal surfaces on both faces and with shallow invasive flaking around most of the perimeter on each face. No polish discernible. Thin greyish patina on the flaked surfaces.
Previously recorded as NHER 37110.
Found in Area 5 (south of area formerly NHER 5622 - now NHER 14950 Context 1):
1 Roman pottery sherd (greyware rim).
Found in Area 6 (between Area 1 and Area 5, TL 7866 8855 approx.):
1 Late Upper Palaeolithic/Mesolithic broken flint blade.
3 Neolithic flint chisel arrowheads, 1 broken flaked axe, 10 scrapers, 1 end-polished chisel, 5 flakes, 1 blade fragment and 3 blade-like flakes.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), see descriptions in file. These discoveries were reported in (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 April 2002.
The finds from Areas 1 and 2 are now recorded under NHER 14950.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 May 2013.
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (9)
- BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC? to 4001 BC)
- BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CHISEL (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DISCOIDAL KNIFE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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Record last edited
Oct 9 2023 8:02AM