NHER 6318 (Find Spot record) - Potentially prehistoric worked flints and pottery sherds, Skelding Hill

Prehistoric finds from Skelding Hill, Sheringham. It should be noted that the mapped extent of this record indicates only the approximate area in which these discoveries were made.

REPORTED DISCOVERIES

According to (S1) erosion of the sand and soil at the edge of the cliff on Skelding Hill during the late 19th century had "…laid bare a number of flint chips and flakes, pieces of rough pottery, and the remains of shell-fish used for food". It is also noted that the hill appeared "…to have been fortified at more than one period".

In (S2) the cliff at Skelding Hill is described as being capped by a gravel which was "…full of the fired flints known as 'potboilers'". It is noted that this deposit had "…yielded a few flakes which may be Upper Palaeolithic or later in age". It is unclear whether this is a reference to the material described by Reid several decades earlier or more recent discoveries. These finds are noted by (S3), although this is simply a reference to (S2).

FINDS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

The Norwich Castle Museum's F. H. Barclay Collection (NWHCM : 1935.57) includes a Mesolithic/Neolithic patinated flint blade that is marked as being from "Skelding Hills, Sheringham".

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 September 2014.