NHER 5318 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic flints and Beaker pottery

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Summary

Neolithic flints including arrowheads and a plano convex knife, and the fragments of an almost complete Beaker pottery vessel found in 1960.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Curtis field 52 find 124.

1960.
Sherds of rusticated vessel, all one pot, nearly complete!
Original finds spot on map wrong. Corrected by E. Rose (NAU).
E.B. Green (NCM)

Saddle quern found nearby.
E. Rose (NAU)

Other finds listed by F. Healy (NAU), not necessarily from exaxtly the same spot, polished flint axe with squared sides, pointed butt and straight cutting edge, in KLM.
Tanged arrowhead and 2 implements in Curtis catalogue.
2 flakes, 2 barbed and tanged arrowheads, 9 scrapers, 2 borers, planoconvex knife, 2 serrated pieces, 2 fabricators, flake from polished implement., all Orange collection ex Curtis.
E. Rose (NLA) 26 November 1993.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hockwold cum Wilton.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • BORER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FABRICATOR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • 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)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • POT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • QUERN (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

May 20 2020 8:59AM

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