NHER 13817 (Monument record) - Site of a post medieval windmill and Beaker period or Bronze Age dagger or axe

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Summary

This windmill is marked on Faden's map of Norfolk made in 1797. It was called 'almost new' in 1779. Nothing can be seen on the site that is now a playing field. A Beaker period or Bronze Age flint dagger or axe fragment was found here whilst clearing stones from the playing field.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL98NE
Civil Parish HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Approximate site of wind mill marked on (S1). No trace in flat playing field.
E. Rose (NAU), 27 July 1978.

Called 'almost new built' in 1779.
E. Rose 4 February 1982.

Pre 1986. Stray Find
Found in this approximate area "whilst clearing stones from playing field":
1 ?Late Bronze Age/Early Bronze Age broken butt section of flint dagger or thin axe, maximum 76x52mm, green flint, very finely worked, almost flat surfaced. See outline sketch (S2).
Seen via [1].
E. Rose (NAU), 16 April 1986.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
  • <S2> Illustration: Rose, E. 1986. Outline sketches of a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Neolithic polished flint axehead and ?axehead made on flake and a fragmentary ?Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flint dagger/thin axehead. Paper. 1:1.
  • AXEHEAD (Beaker to Middle Bronze Age - 2300 BC to 1501 BC)
  • DAGGER (Beaker to Middle Bronze Age - 2300 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

Aug 27 2014 12:49PM

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