Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15634 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neoltihic flint tools, medieval spoon and medieval pottery sherds |
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Summary
Fieldwalking here in the 1970s and 1995 recovered a variety of objects including a late medieval bronze spoon, a Neolithic flint axe and two sherds of medieval pottery.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8585 2265 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF82SE |
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| Parish: | WEASENHAM ST PETER, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 1979. South of spring.
Late medieval bronze spoon (14th or 15th century), approximately 17cm long. Pear-shaped bowl, slender stem, and decorative knob (probably derived from acorn design).
Stamp mark at base of stem consists of five-pointed star in lozenge.
Information from finder.
KLM photograph taken on 10 December 1979.
Drawing (S1) in file.
R. Trett (KLM) December 1979.
Pre 1975.
Informant indicated this spot (in 1980) as findspot of flint axe.
His catalogue no.6B and knife (7E).
E. Rose (NAU) 11 February 1981.
March 1995. Fieldwalking.
One base and one body sherd medieval unglazed.
Identified by A. Rogerson (NLA).
D. Gurney (NLA) 16 March 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- KNIFE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SPOON (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. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
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