NHER 5162 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric finds

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Summary

Fieldwalking recovered a scatter of prehistoric worked and burnt flints, fragments of prehistoric pottery and a Roman copper alloy finger ring. The worked flints objects included arrowheads, a plano convex knife and a Beaker period dagger.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL69SE
Civil Parish FELTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Curtis Field 5, Ordnance Survey field 335.

9 May 1954. Context 3.
Polished stone axe, N162, Curtis Catalogue 36, NCM find 95 at 6912 9053.
See (S1).

Context 2.
Also three leaf arrowheads from this field in Curtis Catalogue.
F. Healy (NAU).

1963. Context 4.
Roman copper alloy ring in east corner of field.
KLM 90.963.
Information from (S2).

1964.
Barbed and tanged arrowhead, square barbs, early Bronze Age, NCM find 71, at 6915 9055.
Plano convex knife, NCM find 72 at 6906 9055. Same as scale flaked knife in Secker collection?
F. Healy (NAU).

Context 2.
Chipped and polished flint axehead, find 68 at 6908 9046.
Leaf shaped arrowhead, Windmill Hill type, find 70 at 6901 9052.
Another of same, find 69 at 6911 9050.
See (S1).
Compiled from NCM cards by T. H. Mck. Clough (NCM), information from F. Healy (NAU), and (S2).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 October 1981.

Note: general scatter above of flints (context 2) restricted to former southern field only. Context 1 general scatter over northern field as well (two fields now amalgamated).

23 December 1985. Context 1.
General scatter flints including barbed and tanged arrowhead FWL DX.

Context 5 at 6911 9057. Weathered ploughsoil.
On small ridge of chalk loam with higher than normal sand content, concentration pot boilers (abundant).

TL 6906 9051
Flint knife/dagger of Beaker period found 1962, NCM.
Part of context 2.
Information from [1].
See (S3).
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 2 April 1990.

1991. Context 8 at TL 6888 9065.
During work on farm, polished grey (part iron stained) flint axe.
See (S1).
W. Milligan (NCM), 19 April 1991.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S4).

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 148. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 149. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL 150. FENS.
  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. FWL DX. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Feltwell [5].
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Milligan, W.. 1991. Sketch of a Neolithic polished grey flint axe.. Paper. 1:1.
  • <S2> Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map.
  • <S3> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 SE 29.
  • <S4> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • DAGGER (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • FINGER RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Apr 27 2021 7:43AM

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