Record Details

NHER Number:10759
Type of record:Monument
Name:Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint-working site

Summary

A Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint-working site was discovered in 1953. Finds included spearheads, barbed and tanged arrowheads, leaf arrowheads, polished axeheads, axe hammers, fabricators, knives, scrapers and borers.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 5341 9990
Map Sheet:TM59NW
Parish:HOPTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

Neolithic flint site centred on field (now camp site) north-east of former Manor Farm.
Two spearheads and fragments.
Two barbed and tanged arrowheads and fragments.
Four leaf arrowheads and fragments.
Fragment polished axe and two complete.
Several axe hammers, fabricators, knives, scrapers, borers. Many flakes.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • LITHIC WORKING SITE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC WORKING SITE (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Associated Finds

  • AXE HAMMER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SPEAR (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
  • LEAF ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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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