Record Details

NHER Number:16913
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric flint tools

Summary

During the period 1971-73 a selection of prehistoric flint tools were recovered from the field surface here. Finds included scrapers, arrowheads, a 'spearhead', an 'agricultural implement' and an axehead.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 827 197
Map Sheet:TF81NW
Parish:ROUGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1971-73. Surface finds. From Eight and Twenty Acres Field.
Flint tools.
Collection not seen because not kept separate and not necessarily all retained.

21 July 1971.
Scraper (14U).

14 August 1971.
Arrowhead fragment (24K).

4 September 1971.
Scraper (23U).

17 February 1973.
'Spearhead' (30D).

17 March 1973.
Scraper (24b), (37-8b).
Miscellaneous tool (35m).

5 April 1973.
'Agricultural implement' (19L).
Axe (4B), finder 1.

13 April 1973.
Scraper (17-22b).

17 April 1973.
Scraper (58d).
E. Rose (NAU) 20 January 1981.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • SPEAR (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (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.

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