Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14896 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic and Bronze Age flint tools (Surlingham, poorly located) |
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Summary
In 1915 a collection of Neolithic and Bronze Age flint implements was recovered from an unknown location in Surlingham. Finds included a tanged and barbed arrowhead, a leaf-shaped knife, two long flakes and a polished axehead.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | SURLINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Exact site unknown.
Neolithic flint and 'eoliths'.
'[1] exhibited (October 18 1915) a series of implements found by him and [2] at Surlingham, Norfolk. These included a rechipped sub-Crag implement, and rechipped portion having an ochrous patina, a tanged and barbed arrowhead, a leaf-shaped knife, a small cone with two planes, two long flakes apparently of Cissbury type, and a polished axe with a hinge fracture at one end' - see (S1).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 NW 25. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1916. Summary of Proceedings. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol II Pt II (for 1915-16) pp 320-325. p 320. |
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