Record Details

NHER Number:10743
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Mesolithic flint blade

Summary

In 1948 a Mesolithic-type flint "knife blade" was recovered southwest of Tan's Carr in sand from a rabbit burrow.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 4699 9449
Map Sheet:TM49SE
Parish:WHEATACRE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1948. Stray Find.
Found south-west of Tan's Carr in sand from rabbit burrow:
1 Mesolithic-type flint knife blade. 2 1/2 inch [6cm] long. Shown to R. R. Clarke (NCM), by [1].
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 February 2014.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 49 SE 11.
---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 - Mesolithic.

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