Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17320 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic/Early Neolithic worked flints |
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Summary
Prior to 1998 a number of worked flints were found at this location including a Late Upper Palaeolithic blade and a Mesolithic/Early Neolithic core, blades and end scraper.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 928 941 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL99SW |
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| Parish: | STOW BEDON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 28 May 1981 (date material brought in). Stray Find.
Surface finds on Breckles Heath (west):
1 ?Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint blade core, 3 blades, 2 flakes and 1 end scraper made on a blade.
Identified and originally compiled by F. Healy (NAU), 29 May 1981. Information from (S1).
A number of flints from this site were subsequently donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1998.407.15). These finds are listed by the NCM as 1 core, 1 end scraper on long narrow flake and 6 long narrow flakes/blades. These presumably include the pieces reported in 1981. One of the blades in this collection is the broken distal end of a very large piece and was identified by P. Robins (NCM) as potentially Late Upper Palaeolithic. This blade is listed in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 September 2014.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
- BLADE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- END SCRAPER (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Robins, P. and Wymer, J. 2006. Late Upper Palaeolithic (Long Blade) Industries in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLV Pt I pp 86-95. p 95. |
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