Record Details
| NHER Number: | 10579 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint finds |
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Summary
A variety of Neolithic flint objects were found on ploughland in 1972, including scrapers, borers, cores, a knife and a leaf arrowhead.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 513 008 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG50SW |
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| Parish: | HOPTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1972. Oak Farm.
Ploughland.
Partially worked backed knife, leaf arrowhead, seven multi-platformed cores. Two hollow scrapers, two key scrapers, two borers, nine side scrapers. Seventeen end scrapers, one core scraper, one core trimming flake.
Several pieces of worked flint which have no definite known purpose.
Good spread of secondary flakes with the occasional primary flakes used as scrapers.
Retained by Lowestoft Archaeology and Local History Society.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LEAF ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 50 SW 12. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Hopton on Sea. |
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