NHER 38098 (Find Spot record) - Mesolithic and Neolithic flints, Iron Age to medieval pottery sherds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL88NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WEETING WITH BROOMHILL, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Before 13 January 2003. Fieldwalking.
In cleared forest between Harling Drove and railway.
Over 200 prehistoric worked flints including a Mesolithic blade core and a possible unfinished Early Neolithic leaf arrowhead. The bulk of the assemblage is however of probably later Neolithic date including:
3 Knives (plus one possible)
16 Scrapers
4 Notched pieces
6 Borers
17 Other retouched pieces
9 Cores
121 Flakes and flake fragment
24 Shatter pieces and other debitage
Two sherds of ?Iron Age pottery and one of Iron Age/Early Saxon date also found, along with seven sherds of Roman pottery.
Also medieval pottery sherds, roofing tile and brick.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 March 2003. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 May 2013.
Associated Sources (1)
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)
Object Types (15)
- BLADE CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
- BORER (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DEBITAGE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- BRICK (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- ROOF TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 20 2023 11:13AM