Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15027 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic arrowhead and flints, north side of Royal Hill |
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Summary
Fieldwalking at this site in 1979 recorded a thin tanged flint arrowhead and forty flint flakes. All these finds date to sometime in the Neolithic period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1393 1484 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 1979. Fieldwalking.
Recovered by [1] from the ground surface on the north side of Royal Hill (finder's Site 2a):
1 Neolithic long, thin, tanged flint arrowhead with bifacial pressure flaking. See drawing (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.
August 1979. Fieldwalking.
Additional finds by [1] (finder's Site 2a).
40 Neolithic flint flakes, five 'chunks' and one core.
W. Milligan (NCM) 4 February 1982.
At least some of the finds collected by [1] at this site in 1979 were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1982.84.4).
P. Watkins (HES), 4 August 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- DEBITAGE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1979. Drawing of a Neolithic flint tanged arrowhead. Card. 1:1. |
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