Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15184 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric flint tools and medieval pottery sherd |
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Summary
Fieldwalking here in 1979 and 1983 recovered several prehistoric flint pieces, with the finest example taking the form of a polished axe. A solitary medieval pottery sherd was also recorded.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1338 1383 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SW |
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| Parish: | RINGLAND, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1979. Stray Find.
Sticking out of ground in young carrot field:
1 Neolithic polished flint axe on grey flint. See drawing (S1).
A. Taylor (NCM) 1979.
Also - seventeen flakes, two scrapers, one core, one axe roughout?, one hammer stone.
Finder's site 9.
W. Milligan (NCM) 8 March 1982.
1983.
Further flint flakes and medieval sherd.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM) 11 July 1983.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Medieval - 4000 BC to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
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 polished flint axehead. Card. 1:1. |
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