NHER 60100 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking in 1975-1976 recovered a number of prehistoric worked flints, including probable Neolithic scrapers, a retouched flake and a core.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG04SW
Civil Parish BLAKENEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pre 1975. Stray Find.
This field is one of several in the Blakeney area that formed the lands of Church Farm in 1977. Prior to this date the farmer [1] had collected 38 Neolithic flaked and polished flint axeheads from these fields, although unfortunately the exact provenance of these objects was not recorded. See NHER 60094 and (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 6 July 2014.

1975-1976. Fieldwalking.
Barn Breck (finder's Field 152).
Fieldwalked by [2] as part of a larger survey of the lands of Church Farm, Wiveton.
107 worked flints including 3 end scrapers, 1 side scraper, 1 side-and-end scraper, 1 scraper on thermal flake, 1 single-platform core, 1 retouched flake and 6 blades/bladelets.
The bulk of the material collected was believed to be Neolithic.
See (S1) for further details in which two scrapers and two blades are illustrated.
Previously recorded under NHER 15637.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 July 2014.

June 2017.
INDTEH042023AR - PAS and other details to follow.
For additonal information on conditions see unpublished document (S2).
H. Hamilton (HES), 22 May 2023.

  • <S1> Thesis: Gidney, L. J.. 1977. Some Neolithic Flint Axes and a Surface Collection from Church Farm, Wiveton, Norfolk.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Hotblack, T. E.. 2017. Notes on fielwalking and metal-detecting in Wiveton and Blakeney May-June 2017. BaWEFW 25.
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SIDE AND END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Record last edited

May 22 2023 1:26PM

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