NHER 3891 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age sickle

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Summary

A Beaker flint sickle, found in about 1950.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish EAST WINCH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

About 1950. On peat fen on west side of Bilney Woods.
Flint dagger Beaker type, reddish brown flint.
Drawing by Miss A. S. Mottram, see (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

August 2011.
This object was reidentified as a sickle by Dr Catherine Frieman, RLAHA, Oxford University, who examined the flint.
Information from museum records.
A. Cattermole (HES), 28 October 2014.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Winch (East).
  • SICKLE (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

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Record last edited

Oct 28 2014 1:32PM

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