Record Details

NHER Number:19370
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic and post-medieval finds

Summary

In 1980 a chipped and polished flint axe was ploughed up; while metal-detecting in 2016 recovered a post-medieval spur fragment.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 12 21
Map Sheet:TG12SW
Parish:BOOTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1980. 200 yards north of Methodist Chapel. Ploughed up.
Chipped and polished flint axe, cutting edge damaged. Details unknown.
Information via Dick Malt, (NCM) via 2 others. To NAU July 1983.
See (S1).
Identified by E. Green (NCM) 3 April 1981.

September-October 2016. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [1].
Post-medieval spur fragment.
Information from PAS import.
A. Beckham (HES), 4 November 2016.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SPUR (17th Century - 1640 AD to 1670 AD)

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Unknown. 1981. Drawing of a Neolithic polished flint axe.. Card. 1:1.

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