Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19824 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Prehistoric pot boilers and Mesolithic, Neolithic and undatable prehistoric flint implements, west of Townfarm Barn |
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Summary
A number of prehistoric flint implements have been recovered at this site, a significant proportion of which appear to be of Mesolithic date, including several tranchet axeheads. A polished Neolithic flint axe and a number of undatable prehistoric flints have also been found. Fieldwalking in this field has identified two scatters of prehistoric pot boilers.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8464 1262 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SW |
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| Parish: | SPORLE WITH PALGRAVE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Prehistoric finds from two fields west of Townfarm Barn.
1983. Stray Finds.
Found by [1] when picking potatoes:
2 Mesolithic chipped flint axeheads. See outline sketches (S1).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU) and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM).
Information from (S3). Discoveries noted in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
1984. Stray Finds.
Found in roughly the same area as the 1983 finds:
1 Mesolithic light flint axe made from small blade core and 1 plunging flint flake from blade core.
Identified by J. J. Wymer (NAU) and compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 16 November 1984.
Information from (S3).
Not explicitly dated, but presumably Mesolithic; which is the only period listed on (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
26 February 1985. Fieldwalking.
Various prehistoric worked flints recovered during fieldwalking, the majority found in the northern half of the field (within and beyond the area of the earlier finds):
1 Neolithic polished flint axe. See sketch (S4).
1 triangular sectioned flint adze (S5), 1 small flaked axe, 1 crude multi-platform core, 27 flakes and 1 blade.
These objects are presumably Mesolithic or Neolithic, although no dates are listed. The thin blade is probably Mesolithic. The majority of the flakes are crude undiagnostic pieces although 3 are soft-hammer struck axe thining flakes.
Two pot boiler sites were also identified within the field (TF 8475 1280 and TF 8462 1270).
See file for full details and location sketch.
E. Rose (NAU) 30 April 1985. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
18 April 1985. Fieldwalking.
Found to south of earlier discoveries:
3 prehistoric broken flaked axe roughouts, 2 crude cores and 1 bifacial axe-like punch.
No suggested dates recorded, but presumably Mesolithic or Neolithic.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
May-June 1985. Further fieldwalking.
Several objects from general area of site:
1 prehistoric large single-platform flint core, 1 single-platform blade core and 6 flakes.
No suggested dates recorded, but presumably Mesolithic or Neolithic.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
1993. Fieldwalking.
1 Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint axe. See drawing ().
Several undatable prehistoric worked flints, including scraper, flake and a crude core.
See file for identifications by P. Robins (NCM) and drawing of axe (S6).
W. Milligan (NCM) 16 August 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 5 June 2013.
Monument Types
- BURNT MOUND (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- ADZE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXE TRIMMING FLAKE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BLADE CORE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- CORE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 3001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- PUNCH (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Milligan, W. 1983. Outline sketches of two Mesolithic flaked flint axeheads from Sporle with Palgrave. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: 1984. Archaeological Discoveries for 1983. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 29 pp 17-33. p 31. |
| <S3> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Sketch of a Neolithic polished flint axehead from Sporle with Palgrave. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S5> | Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Drawing of a Mesolithic/Neolithic flint adze from Sporle with Palgrave. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S6> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1993. Drawing of a Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint axehead from Sporle with Palgrave. Paper. 1:1. |
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